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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In the same way ppl eventually caught on that gamergate was just an excuse to harass women, it's high time people realized that when guys are anti-trans while claiming they're looking out for women's sports, it's really just so they can humiliate and belittle women.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Pretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
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She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
reuters: 

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
starting a collection of quotes like this
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We still have the cultural image that actual Nazis were defeated in the 1940's, and the remaining Nazis are either unemployed basement-dwellers or fringe militias in Idaho. There is still a reluctance by media and business leaders to say openly that the world's wealthiest person is a Nazi.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Alex notices a Trans Woman across the street and thinks to herself "Egad! Another Trans woman in the wild!" She takes a bow-legged crouching stancing and puts her index and middle fingers to her forehead a la Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon. She think to herself "I shall psychically communicate solidarity with her." The other woman notices Alex from across the street and thinks to herself "hey, it's that bitch from the internet I hate."
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
democrats freaking the fuck out over the DSA is giving "a vote for bart is a vote for anarchy" vibes
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mom brains @mom-brains.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I fashion my personality off of hostile architecture
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026
once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tweet from atrophy wife 🎀 (@zuza_real):

Y'all still follow Jonathan Swift? The man who literally supports eating babies?

(some time later)

Obviously the whole time I knew he was joking but it's still not okay. Here's why [1/20]
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It would be nice if, at the very least, the people reporting on this stuff properly contextualized it by explicitly stating that if the president can do this the union has ceased to exist. It's not hyperbole or figurative language. There is no union. "Unconstitutional" doesn't cover it.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/07/2026
there are a lot of things about our current cultural moment that are extremely depressing but the extent to which the right tried to canonize charlie kirk and managed only to turn him into a meme (derogatory) is genuinely encouraging
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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/07/2026
“chart for dinner” is so good, definitely will be a load bearing comic for me for the rest of my life
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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I once remarked that some may say Indiana Jones killed an awful lot of people for a university professor, but that's just because he was a professor of archeology. Were he a professor of economics, he would be pulling downright rookie numbers! Chicago Institute would be making up derisive nicknames.
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Bryn @slimewave.me · 20/07/2026
You know, I think that “wonk” was actually a genius coinage when you think about it: the smug think[sic]-tank-adjacent “intellectuals” it describes truly are individuals whose very conception of ‘knowing’ is on backwards. The bumptious world must bend to fit the model! Graph trumps material reality!
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 21/07/2026
It really doesn’t matter if you have a degree in economics or not- if you think that the majority of bourgeois modern economics is about showing material reality instead of warping it for propaganda purposes and to create justifications for business policy you are very stupid
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A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
i worked in several casinos and later for an online sportsbook. the best advice i can give you is to stay the hell away from all of it.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 18/07/2026
Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This is the point in Sim City where you’re like well I’m fucked
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
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The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this
Millennial grey

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A kitchen with beige grey floors, drab walls, brushed steel appliances, and grey granite countertops.
Grey floors and furnishings are said to appeal to Millennial tastes.
Millennial grey refers to a desaturated colour scheme that is said to appeal to the interior design sensibilities of the Millennial Generation in the early 21st century.[1] Cultural historian Kassia St. Clair attributed its widespread adoption to a desire among Millennials for "a flexible, sensible choice that will last years, hide any stains, and can be adapted to different schemes."[1] Some have diagnosed Millennial grey as a reaction to the warm hues of the late 20th century.[2]

Millennial grey is polarising, particularly when used with imitation-wood-texture sheet vinyl flooring, which many describe as depressing, soulless, or corporate.[3][4] Although attributed to Millennials, the grey colour scheme is often chosen by house flippers, vacation rental owners, or other people who do not actually live in the greyed properties.[3] Thus, the occupant of the property—Millennial or not—has little say in its colour scheme, particularly when deployed for fixtures such as flooring.[4] The greying may have been driven, in part, by a desire to prepare properties for sale in a manner thought to be least offensive to the average buyer.[5] Given the housing crises gripping many countries in the early to mid-21st century, buyers and renters may feel they have no choice but to accept a property decked in Millennial grey.[4]

To the extent that Millennial grey is said to be enjoyed by Millennials, it is also said to be loathed by Generation Z.[1][2]
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Schwarz @schwarzcrow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"parasite outbreak blamed on taco bell because they're the only company reporting it" feels very "1918 flu blamed on Spain because they're the only country reporting it"
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"Lindsey Graham, Proud War Hawk, Has Died. Here He Is in His Own Words" The South Carolina senator and staunch Trump ally, who passed away suddenly on Saturday night, wanted to 'level' Gaza and invade Cuba, joked about killing Ted Cruz, and salivated over bombing Iran. My piece for Zeteo today:
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Lindsey Graham, Proud War Hawk, Has Died. Here He Is in His Own Words
The South Carolina senator and staunch Trump ally, who passed away suddenly on Saturday night, wanted to 'level' Gaza and invade Cuba, joked about killing Ted Cruz, and salivated over bombing Iran.
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mom brains @mom-brains.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Always speak ill of the dead. Who cares? They’re dead
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Chris Nolan having increasingly better opinions while being a rich British guy in his mid 50’s is one of the great wonders of our age
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
victory lapping on this one
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
When someone tells you it has always been this bad, the correct response is to point out that the Voting Rights Act passed with 98 votes in the Senate in 2006 and its main sponsor was a Republican who worked with the ACLU to build a comprehensive record in defense of its most “controversial” parts
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.
The Population Forecasts Are Grim. Theyre Still Too Optimistic.
By Lyman StoneIt's difficult to articulate the extent to which Somalian immigrants are a *unique* problem.
Other immigrant groups may not always have stellar outcomes, but there are almost none who as persistently have the absolute worst outcomes in every country they move to as Somalians.FWIW I think attacking IVF really is a massively losing political position, and I say that as someone with serious moral concerns around
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I think if you must attack IVF, you would argue against discarding embryos as a form of Nazi eugenics, not on the basis of personhood.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/07/2026
"An account with this avatar was blocked" post. You open it and it's a long forgotten picture of your grandmother as a younger woman. You must have been a child at that age. She looks happier than you ever knew her. You could not possibly have memories from that age. The TL refreshes and it's gone
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/07/2026
prepared for the day's fresh new horrors
Gerda Maurus in Fritz Lang’s 'Woman in the Moon' (1929) 

a woman's face peers suspiciously from a round faceplate in a large cylindrical steampunk looking metal helmet
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026
There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. The parliament or the people of 1688, or of any other period, had no more right to dispose of the people of the present day, or to bind or to controul them in any shape whatever, than the parliament or the people of the present day have to dispose of, bind or controul those who are to live a hundred or a thousand years hence. Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
also if we built many more big cities, the big cities we have would not be expensive anymore because it turns out that dense housing linked by mass transit is actually far cheaper and more efficient than suburban sprawl. it's just expensive now because there's a shortage of it
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Business idea: algorithmic-style Dynamic Pricing at restaurants. You can get French onion soup for $1.75 when it's really hot out, but a tomato salad costs $57 in August. Everyone hates it; Softbank has already contributed $150m in funding just off the concept.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/07/2026
Holy shit. This is Fox reporting on the “Trump family: biggest grift of all time.” For once, they accidentally wandered into the truth.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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