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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 17h

This is what leadership looks like. Real wins for real people. This should be the norm, not an outlier. It could be, but it will only happen once people stop believing the narrative fallacy that conservatives are the fiscally responsible ones and progressives want unreasonable things.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Robert Muller & Jack Smith brought the receipts that left no doubts that our adversary in the cold war had comprised the Republican party. Then Putin's assets in the Senate acquitted him, firmly confirming this fact in my mind. Now we're importing Russian diesel. The proof is in the pudding.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#enshitification Thank you #Spotify Turning off my ability to play songs in any order, giving me messages saying I'm only allowed to hear songs once a day and asking me to subscribe to a service even your own app recognizes I am already subscribed to may be the straw that inspires my cancelation.

Screenshot of membership status page showing that I am currently subscribed at premium and should have full functionality of the app.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The mid-terms will show either a story of a gullible nation that wakes up and rejects the foreign adversarial assets that have infested our politics. Or it will show us to be the behemoth of indifferent cruelty we currently have unleashed upon the world. Anyone not voting, has voted the latter.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I really hope we do some clearing out of the democratic deadwood this year from the Ship of Theseus that is the body of our democracy. To much of today's depravity is from the failure to enact effective guardrails when this generation held power. Time for the Mandami generation to take charge.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Henson has been a major inspiration throughout my life. His vision. His quiet supportive leadership of a menagerie of creative geniuses that gravitated around him. He did so much. It's his birthday today. When Jim Henson reached my age, he'd already been dead for 5 years. I'll never catch up.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

JD is reframeing journalists and their organizations as cheerleaders, advocating for a side. Moose Muffins! All legitimate journalists are critical of sitting power. That is foundational to journalism. Full stop.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Basically JD is saying that anyone at the WH with press credentials is a shill for this administration. At this point any adversarial engagement by the remaining press corps must be viewed with a suspicion of being performative theater. Legitimate criticism is not welcome and will be removed. 1/2

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Carol, Muddling Through Somehow 😏 @pierrette1789.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Years ago, I recommended the slogan “Reimagine Public Safety”. It centers *safety*, which allows us to highlight the ways aggressive policing makes us all *less safe*, and encourages finding new ways to protect communities from harms. “Defund”, but not scary. 😏

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Carol, Muddling Through Somehow 😏 @pierrette1789.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey look! @doctorow.pluralistic.net ‘s “enshittification” has been personified! 😅

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm getting a lot of this action as well. I see it as one of many natural and inevitable consequence that follow the loss of all those consumer protections that went away during the DOGE purges. Substack, SMS, so much spam from those who are supposed to be the good guys.

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Carol, Muddling Through Somehow 😏 @pierrette1789.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mad props to Macklemore:

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Translation: After less than two years under this administration, the CDC is running like a Trump family business. Poorly. Basically they have buggered up the books on accommodations so badly they have asked everyone to start over at the beginning. It's all just cruelty posing as incompetence.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Appolo gave Cassandra the gift of perfect prophecy. Then after she refused to sleep with him, invoked a curse that no one would believe her. That whole Trojan war thing could have been prevented if people listened to her. It feels like Appolo has been prolific putting his curse on our generation.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 29/08/2026

“Language has power. A name is not the thing; it is the relationship between the speaker and the thing.” CMarie Fuhrman writes on how renaming Mount Tahoma erased generational relationships with the land. A reprint from Magic Canoe's Indigenous Leadership Desk. ⛰️ thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

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To Name a Mountain Is to Name Our Kin | The Tyee

English is an unfortunately efficient language for colonialism. Renaming Mount Tahoma is a case in point.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I wish I encountered more insightful "think pieces" i.e. pieces about thinking, and the diversity of what lurks between the different minds we encounter. This was an appreciated aperitif for thought that stumbled into my feeds today.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Another study confirms decades of similar conclusions about universal healthcare. Will policy ever be influenced to abandon our monstrosity of a system for something better and cheaper? I can hope. I do dream. I also believe in Santa Claus. @santaclausalaska.bsky.social

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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

REMEMBER: They all knew.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Delta Airlines charging me for my bag? That's obnoxious. Delta Airlines charging me to book a seat? That's obnoxious. But Delta Airlines working with ICE to ship people to concentration camps is COLLABORATION. Boycot #delta

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

clearly there was a mewtiny

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

An awesome show with familiar stories that you most likely haven't heard the whole story yet. A night not to be missed, and with replay included in the ticket price, you have some flexibility as to the night not to miss it on. I'm behind the scenes with the tech for the livestream. Come join us.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our State Department isn’t just the lazy, stupid student who uses AI to do their homework, our State Department is *so lazy and stupid* it doesn’t even check the homework before turning it in.

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 29/07/2026

The DOJ Voting Rights Division is the Washington Generals of federal legal agencies

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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My first search engine.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember, atrocious as the over-reach by this administration may be, that *most* courts are upholding the law. Building 'a more perfect union' requires not abandoning centuries of hard fought progress and successes, even as the originalists activist supremes attempt to revive Dred Scott.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Here’s the strategic core: cheating operations work on the margins. They flip close races. They exploit recounts, certification fights, faithless officials, and friendly courts. What they cannot do, what no operation in American history has ever managed to do, is steal a landslide.

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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

If, like me, you’re not British and you only kinda sorta knew what was going on with Binface, this is both an excellent primer and a surprisingly touching piece about the real person beneath the bin.

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*that* Heather Hudson (but spooky) @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Know your skulls - a thread.

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Carol, Muddling Through Somehow 😏 @pierrette1789.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It’s pretty wild that he has decided to compare himself to Teddy Roosevelt, a man who certainly would have despised him. Teddy was anti-corruption, anti-monopoly, and came from old money. A crass self-enriching grifter like Trump would have been shown the door at the Roosevelts. Roosevelt:

There can be no crime more serious than bribery. Other offenses violate one law while corruption strikes at the foundation of all law. Under our form of Government all authority is vested in the people and by them delegated to those who represent them in official capacity. There can be no offense heavier than that of him in whom such a sacred trust has been reposed, who sells it for his own gain and enrichment; and no less heavy is the offense of the bribe giver. He is worse than the thief, for the thief robs the individual, while the corrupt official plunders an entire city or State. He is as wicked as the murderer, for the murderer may only take one life against the law, while the corrupt official and the man who corrupts the official alike aim at the assassination of the commonwealth itself. Government of the people, by the people, for the people will perish from the face of the earth if bribery is tolerated. The givers and takers of bribes stand on an evil pre-eminence of infamy. The exposure and punishment of public corruption is an honor to a nation, not a disgrace.
The shame lies in toleration, not in correction.... If we fail to do all that in us lies to stamp out corruption we can not escape our share of responsibility for the guilt. The first requisite of successful self-government is unflinching enforcement of the law and the cutting out of corruption.

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dmischo @dmischo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I've been learning my family's tribal language, Ojibwemowin. It's an Algonquin language. In Ojibwemowin, Strawberry Moon is called Ode'imini-giizis. Ode' is heart & min is berry--it describes the shape of the berry. Giizis is moon. Miigwech (thank you)! Mino Ode'imini-giizis (Good Strawberry Moon).

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dmischo @dmischo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I agree with you & thank you for your vote. My problem is that this seems illegal on multiple levels. When this happens, that member of Congress should be prosecuted and should no longer be a member of Congress. We have a saying in my field--if it appears unethical, it is unethical. This isn't hard.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/06/2026

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

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Daniel Pinkwater @danielpinkwater.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Doesn't matter that YOU're sick of him. Every marginally functional human is sick of him. Always has been sick of him. I was sick of him in 2 minutes when he was a local clown in NYC. What matters is that a heavily invested enthusiastic minority sees something in this swine, likes him. We are toast.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I suspect it went a little something like this: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This disheartening news marks another of the visceral living connections to our collective history that has succumb to modernity. "We lose a tree like this every year. They have no designated legal protection and we are losing them because they are not being valued appropriately.”

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Just once, I would like one of these congresspeople to say “If you’re not willing to acknowledge reality about this, then I have no reason to trust you about anything else. I will vote no. I yield the rest of my time.”

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Bonus, your car is parked in the shade all day.

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Carol, Muddling Through Somehow 😏 @pierrette1789.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I hope Washington state and others without work requirements get together & take legal action against this. Young people with mental health problems already have trouble finding work, and now they’re supposed to go without healthcare? Like, going off their meds is gonna help them land jobs? 😠

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Google dropping "don't be evil" really shook me. I worked in tech once upon a time. That kind of thing doesn't happen without conversations. Deep meaningful conversations that lead to resignations when the principles of the first generation get trampled in favor of massive profits.

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Leo also denounces what he calls novel forms of colonialism, including the “extraction” of health data and demographic information. 1/3

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