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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

sorry i woke up thinking about this and i feel very unwell. every day the new sickest thing imaginable happens!!

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mjec @mjec.net · 05/09/2026

The question we're all asking is do Benjamin Wittes and Roger Parloff know what rpf is?

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mjec @mjec.net · 28/08/2026

As I await my dinner companions, I contemplate a question of etiquette: when pouring water for myself, do I fill the glasses of my absent friends? On the one hand, it's impolite to fill only my glass. On the other, moving water from the bottle to a glass will cause it to warm faster. A conundrum.

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This kind of racism is permissible in mainstream US outlets if the subject is a Muslim

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mjec @mjec.net · 30/07/2026

Taswegians! I'll be in the state from Tuesday through nearly the end of the month. Let's catch up?

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mjec @mjec.net · 30/07/2026

Passkeys really are so much better than passwords. The cross-device sign-in mechanism in particular is inspired.

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mjec @mjec.net · 29/07/2026

I may be a simple country hyperchicken but I do think that once the autocomplete machine can produce a novel attack on seven round AES it's not helpful to call it an autocomplete machine anymore

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mjec @mjec.net · 26/07/2026

I do think a rogue AI killing Elon Musk would be among the funniest ways for the US to collapse

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Not a single word about how these tariffs violate both our WTO & USCMA obligations. Every time Trump does this, the NYT & other outlets simply write as if we live in an international vacuum, where the US has no obligations under signed, ratified international treaties. It's journalistic malpractice.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 14/07/2026

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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I Am Not Sorry Lindsey Graham is Dead - Assigned Media

How a decade of hate made me a worse person

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mjec @mjec.net · 08/07/2026

Wizards are so powerful that regular folks pose no threat, so why do they have to stay hidden?* Obviously it's to avoid creating a society structured around two classes of people * youtu.be/QYUJ_ODfc8w?...

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

No matter how many people are talking about this, it is not enough people talking about this.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is a really great way of putting it. (And a really useful lens for examining how people's needs are framed more broadly.)

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mjec @mjec.net · 28/05/2026

The past year was a real fuckin rollercoaster. Shocking levels of mental health treatment. Well, not ECT, but TMS and ketamine. Also I guess AI is a thing, and last time I told a story about my family goings on the listener tried to buy podcast rights. And that's just the navel gazing stuff.

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mjec @mjec.net · 28/05/2026

I was about to talk about how I'm not here much anymore because it's not great for my mental health, but I got distracted by reports the US is taking steps towards invading Cuba. So case in point.

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mjec @mjec.net · 14/05/2026

Have you heard? They did surgery on a grape

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mjec @mjec.net · 12/05/2026

Hydroxyzine: because you can't be anxious if you're asleep 😴

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The mark consists of: "the stylized number "6" composed of a breaded appetizer bite . . . positioned above a yellow hand and the number "7" composed of a breaded appetizer bite . . . positioned above the other hand" tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

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mjec @mjec.net · 10/05/2026

It is really bothering me that two days ago in a throwaway comment on reddit, made while high, I called something an objective test when I meant to call it a non-discretionary standard. But it's probably fine right?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/04/2026

It is so depressing watching everything previous generations fought and died for be dismantled piece by piece. These basic protections and institutions, while imperfect, still pushed in the right direction. We are failing future generations and leaving a worse world behind for them.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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mjec @mjec.net · 16/04/2026

I just got served a tiktok that was ai narration of a random walk. Literally.

A desmos program showing an emoji house at the origin and an emoji person at the end of a random walk, showing the whole walk

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mjec @mjec.net · 11/04/2026

Now they've hung up and we're calling them (this is among the funniest things I've seen this year)

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mjec @mjec.net · 11/04/2026

I love the NASA #artemisii coverage but I just want it in metric pls

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mjec @mjec.net · 11/04/2026

It feels a little on the nose that the ESA folks who run the service module have such a shit office compared to NASA folks #artemisii

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mjec @mjec.net · 21/01/2026

I'm coming up on ten years in the US and I finally for the first time today got summoned for jury duty! Genuinely excited, though I don't expect anything exciting

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mjec @mjec.net · 20/01/2026

I know I've made it because sometimes I just throw away the dregs of the ketchup

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mjec @mjec.net · 14/09/2025

I've not really been around here in six months. My mental health has been Extremely Poor, and a social media break was part of trying to get better (along with inpatient and outpatient treatment). Last week a dear friend died of suicide. I'm back on social media again. It's a relapse.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I think most of who have worked in writing or entertainment know that piracy is a fact of life, and has been for a long time now. But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.

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mjec @mjec.net · 06/03/2025

I think this is like not being able to get over stick shift cars — and i totally get both

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mjec @mjec.net · 06/03/2025

I would move to Wales for Only Connect

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/03/2025

This says way more about Rahm Emanual than trans people

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 27/02/2025

It just hit me that across every dimension Trump is destroying a full century of human progress. Free trade, the norm against aggression, vaccines and public health, desegregation, victory against fascism and ethno-nationalism. All onto the bonfire. One of the greatest criminals in history.

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mjec @mjec.net · 27/02/2025

Have any Republicans anywhere condemned the Nazi salutes by Musk and at CPAC?

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

How’s this WSJ take aging

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Larry Rubinow @elrubino.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The latest episode of @socialistdogmom.bsky.social's "Weird Little Guys" podcast, "They Got What They Wanted", is far from stand-alone, but I think it can be listened to that way - and it's timely and important and sad. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

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Weird Little Guys | iHeart

Weird Little Guys is a weekly show about the worst people you’ve never heard of, taking you beyond the headlines to get to know the race warriors and aspiring terrorists trying to unravel the fabric o...

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mjec @mjec.net · 26/02/2025

If you didn't know, anhedonia is fun. Or not. I can't tell.

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mjec @mjec.net · 26/02/2025

As a legal/formal matter, of course this is true. But I think the criticism here -- and of Musk's takeover of twitter -- is about the destruction of what was once a valuable forum. The elimination of spaces for impactful and open discussion is, IMO, an issue for free speech (with no legal valence).

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Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

we don’t talk enough about this aspect of our current moment: the sadness and grief of losing institutions that were once so important to us, because they proved unworthy of our support. and it is real grief, because we lose what those institution might have been, if only they had been better.

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mjec @mjec.net · 26/02/2025

The Australian Financial Review put it best nearly eleven years ago: world is fukt (image source mumbrella.com.au/afr-apologis...)

A photo of the Australian Financial Review from 24-27 April 2014, including the headline "arms build up / buys planes, world is fukt"

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

perhaps the statement from an independent press association in response to an authoritarian government restricting the press should be an announcement that the members of that association will no longer be covering and reprinting the regime's misinformation events as they have been doing since day 1

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Shea Jordan Smith @sheajordansmith.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Reporter: If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say? Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Fuck off.

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mjec @mjec.net · 25/02/2025

I doubt people think this carefully about it. They think DEI is forcing teaching to be a certain way, but they do not even consider the mechanism

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