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Well, the lynx couldn't overcome 5 on 8 and let it get to them in the fourth.

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The air is just gone out of TC. Congrats to the refs.

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Stewie with the gigantic flop. Coward.

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Fuck the Liberty. Fuck the Refs. Fuck the @wnba.com and their fucking Draftkings bullshit.

Refs immediately call phantom fouls on Howard and Phee, putting both in foul trouble. @wnba.com fixed this one from the jump. Fucking cheaters.

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Home court. Top seed. And we're still getting hosed by the refs. Fuck you @wnba.com

Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

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Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wnba players are endangered species? 🤣

Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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I'm ready for our Villain Era.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ahem. Someone was present.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why is Frey protecting police fraud?

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How are we just low finding this out 1.5 months later? Where was the NCAA and Kentucky State outcry? Where was the motherfucking press release? Where was her coach? Her AD? Academic advisors? Teachers? Dean? Provost? Teammates?

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Go Pack Go. The Bears still suck. Abolish ICE.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This Packers team is an undisciplined disaster.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Has anyone in Minneapolis-St Paul noticed we now have a functional monopoly in the auto body/collusion space? I wonder how much insurance repair rates have gone up as a result.

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 14/09/2026

Missed appointments, malnutrition, miscarriage and stillbirth—Minnesota healthcare providers published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine this month detailing the impact of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on their patients.

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Minnesota healthcare providers detail harm to patients from Operation Metro Surge • Minnesota Reformer

The article adds to the growing body of health research on Operation Metro Surge.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm extremely over Zach Tom as well.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Absolute meltdown by the Packers. Embarrassing.

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Dan Barwick @barwickipedia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'll take "let's keep inferior opponents in the game for a $1000, Ken." #Packers

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How often does the ball reverse the court or touch 4+ passes in a half court possession for the USA WBB? NOT ENOUGH

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026

This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Refs need to not blow the whistle so much.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Spain has to be nervous. That was NOT a good quarter on either end from the US.

Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fire whoever on fiba broadcasts keeps giving us this overhead angle.

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Basil May @basilmai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Reminder that 9/11 was the turbo charge for the current hyper fascist police state we are living in. We surrendered so many basic rights because we'd rather be xenophobic and racist than have any semblance of privacy.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

OMG, D1 outside hitters are weapons of mass destruction.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Texas let's little kids play tackle football. Don't talk at me about safety in sports.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026

As I see it, the unifying global trend is the deluge of digital distractions which are eroding people’s capacity to focus and think for extended periods of time, making strict structures and proven methods especially important for education. Full piece here: www.ft.com/content/a801...

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Have humans passed peak brain power?

Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026

the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.

NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.” BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We booted our top drone expert when modern warfare is moving into a drone heavy era? Congrats to China on its dominance of the 21st century.

Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Burn the whole company to the ground and salt the earth.

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Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org · 04/09/2026

I swear that Peter Thiel drags ever SV founder into a sweat lodge in the Palo Alto hills somewhere and brainwashes them into petty fascism.

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I sorta love morning basketball. That's all.

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Not to be terribly controversial, but Clark was the best player on the floor in the second half with her game management and spreading the ball around and controlling tempo.

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It is wild to be that China still can't produce guards on either the men's or women's side.

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How do you choose which leg to wear one leg sleeve on?

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Large Human Being has no vertical.

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