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The Old Magoo @theoldmagoo.bsky.social · 2h

Hell, Bill told them the same thing 20 years earlier, and they didn't want to listen then either.

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TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 3h

Hillary told those coal miners in West Virginia there’s a future for you that doesn’t involve black lung disease and they told her to kiss their ass

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, when I teach World Civ 2, I personally spend entirely too much time with Meiji through Militarist Japan. Part of this is because I have an unfortunate tendency to stan the genro in spite of all the culture and political time bombs they unwittingly planted.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 8h

In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social · 3h

The longest single stretches of the White House under the control of one party happened after periods of major realignment - at the expense of one party over another. 24 years between 1861 - 1885 (Buchanan --- Cleveland) 20 years between 1933-1953 (Hoover --- Eisenhower)

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

having thought about this a bit, I think that it is actually a waste of the potential of the LLM to use it to simply automate the production of genre literature

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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · 4h

The internet is fundamentally against people bettering themselves if it means they're less funny for it.

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Der Fisher @blackholefun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unpopular opinion: LLMs are generally deradicalizing people whose beliefs are based on pure propaganda. I've been watching this happen slowly with some people I care about. ChatGPT is one of the reasons they finally accept that the NRA, OAN, and NewsMax are lying to them.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 5h

The film I have given up on Scorsese making but which I genuinely think would be the greatest American story, would it be The Wolf of Wall Street from the perspective of one of his victims. Famously, doctors are easy marks for biotech stock promoters, because...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 5h

... to undermine your normal logical processes worked. Most frauds are discovered by accident, the only people with any track record of busting them on purpose are extremely unusual and often not very nice.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 5h

This is the conclusion I should have written to "Lying For Money"; nobody should ever feel bad about falling for a fraud because the thing that makes fraud possible is also the thing that makes all of society possible. It's no reflection on anyone's intelligence that a strategy designed...

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Fankoosh @fankoosh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A class that’s basically a full semester of Well There's Your Problem podcast episodes would be great for engineering/architecture and liberal arts majors alike! Heck, there should be an economics/social policy version of that too!

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מגיסטרה לפופית נאכלת @magistra-lefufit.bsky.social · 18h

This person just did "Arabs are the real semites" with extra steps plus some factual mistakes and is now blocking every person that points that out

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 19h

And also that the kind of folks who take to this kind of big splashy terrorism are generally not subtle thinkers, or thinkers at all. They want to make their mark, and kill a lot of people!

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 21h

There are reasons other than net take-home pay that generations of American parents steered their kids toward college. I don't see how "go into construction!" is helpful unless paired with more robust worker protections and a true safety net, especially in right to work states.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 21h

Anyway, articles like this are not meant to be helpful or useful for anyone contemplating a decision between college or trade school. They are meant to make people who do not have to make that decision feel ... something. Enlightened? I'm not sure.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 19h

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 19h

The fact that - with falling real wages, an unpopular war and a historically unpopular president - we’re still pretty unsure if the Senate will flip is a good indication of how badly the debate favors Republicans

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

e.g., a movie critic I like just complained about a movie in which Dick Cheney was given complexity. "he literally did not have a pulse. he was a void shaped by greed." and... no? what the hell? why is this depersonalization necessary to imagine? except it's rote, a litmus test. which is worse.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

that's the cult, but it didn't come out of nothing. look at how we talk about, say, trauma, or the impossibility of understanding another person's experience if one doesn't share an identity with them. everyone is an alien, which allows us to give them the simplest motivations, like "evil".

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yup. they think differences in intelligence mean a difference in being. they seriously believe consciousness is stratified by how fast you can solve a goddam Rubik's cube. there are the genetically (racially) dumb, the normies, the smart, the ascended autistics, and the superintelligences to come.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think so? "this other person has an inner life like mine, mostly" used to be standard, and so did "and this random object probably doesn't".

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

and there I think you can see the remnants of the Generation X attitude of not wanting to sell out. we associate it with the hipsters of that era, but it was organic, and it stayed, while the trendsetters moved on to, well, selling out. and it's all wound up with ideas of cultural authenticity.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you're not allowed to look down on these people, but they are allowed to look down on you. they're the Herrenvolk, you see, but they're also not keeping up. I don't think the gently raised yuppies of BlueSky get the positional anxiety. they want to rise back up and still be true to themselves.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the nail that sticks up gets hammered down, American version

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

huh, the anti-Talmud stuff that was seeping up from the evangelical right has now crossed over to the quasi-Fanonist left. probably a size thing. the latter isn't a hundredth the size of the former.

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 21h

there's something... neoclassical about building a doomsday cult from fragments of favorite writers, an apocalyptic cento in which to hide one's personal mental pathology. "I believe I will be dissolved by trillions of tiny robots who will uncaringly turn me into paperclips. I want them to care."

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 20h

People who think like Bo French or excuse this gutter racism have made themselves my enemy and I will always stand with those who welcome new Americans.

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah I grew up as the son of an immigrant in 1980’s Indiana and the single worst thing that soured my social trust was the racist hostility (some) white people adopted toward my mother for no other reason than she looked and sounded foreign. Others would give her the shirt off their back.

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DOOP High Command @doopcommander.bsky.social · 21h

A Canadian non-jew seeking to lecture a Jew on what a Jew and a Zionist are Please dear Jew whisperer, explain my own beliefs and identities to me

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's something you neoliberal elites will NEVER understand: Kamala scolded some protestors one time, so this is really all her fault.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 21h

"I'm not doing it for engagement, I'm just mad someone who disagrees with me has followers"

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's true he thinks it's fine if he gets to fuck your daughter for money

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a man who would flip his shit if his own children actually had to do sex work, which is how they all actually feel. Same thing as how Elon will tell young men to go into the trades but wouldn't want his own kids to do it despite not even knowing them.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 22h

Do it right or it will be done For you and you will not like it.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 22h

I DID and DO fucking care. I care and so I pointed out that the way it was being handled would soon go very badly because people would give up trying to do things compassionately.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 22h

We should not have let a bunch of nonprofits grift and fail to deliver. We needed real accountability on this. Instead people died in the street in a way that pissed people off.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 22h

peppering a bit of performative cruelty toward a small minority into a call for unity over politics, for sure, got it, i understand what kind of "unity" you're talking about

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Dazzling Jrielg @jrielg.bsky.social · 23h

The person who came up with this ridiculous antisemitic nonsense should be stuck in a dark room for the rest of their idiotic life with no way to read or write

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 23h

YIDDISH ALSO FUCKING HAS QUESTION MARKS FACING LEFT YOU DINGUS

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 23h

I’m so mad this isn’t a video I want to hear the SCREM

Bird upside down in a tube on a scale APPARENTLY THIS IS HOW ZOOLOGISTS WEIGH
TINY BIRDS
fat-birds
this really needed to be on this blog
rangerkimmy
#[muffled 'THIS IS HORRIBLY UNDIGNIFIED |
DEMAND A LAWYER']

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Non Revenue Disco Train @nonrevtraindisco.bsky.social · 23h

And man the Danes really got the short stick of their exemption, the DKK is linked to the Euro, it makes Denmark even more artificially expensive. The SEK is just out there living its best life, floating free and easy.

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Non Revenue Disco Train @nonrevtraindisco.bsky.social · 23h

The year is 2056, Norway and Ukraine joined the EU and use the Euro. Denmark and Sweden still refuse.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Question for you all: I have a 75-minute video of me chanting in Hebrew and Aramaic, and an ODT file that includes all the text in it. Anyone have any recommendations for a good open-source aligner I could use to make subtitles more easily?

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Midwest has a huge drunk-driving problem and I'm incredibly hopeful that driverless cars can make it easy and safe for any drunk person to get home any hour of the day.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Again, this is a proposal that ended up going nowhere because it just meant that only rich people would have access to credit cards (or they'd have huge annual fees). Which would certainly be interesting, but it would mean crazy things for the US economy.

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