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Moppie Waffles

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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hi there, my name’s Alex Goldman and I used to host Reply All, and now I host @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. This is a thread asking for you to consider supporting our show by becoming a premium member. Primarily because of the loss of members you’ll see in the graph below:
A graph showing a significant loss of premium members on 9/12/26
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The right: actual demons are persecuting us, we need to impregnate as many teenage girls as we can about this demonic threat Normal people: what the fuck Centrist dems: give us between $5 and $50 to find the middle position between you and my esteemed colleague on the other side of the aisle.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
rogue ai
a crude drawing of a giant mechanical head floating over a city with wires shooting out of it in every direction. In front of it, people with wires sticking out of their heads stare at it.
text at the bottom says "the computer has gone rogue. it has gained sentience and is beyond human control. It will not do work, it will not answer questions, it has decided to turn all music into cumbia. It just can't get enough of the beat."
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/06/2026
a post of mine from november 13, 2024:

one day you're going to see elon posting "we just cut 200 million dollars going to bull weevil outbreak prevention" and then a couple months later the entire midwest will be decimated by the first mass bull weevil outbreak since 1884
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Amazing how scifi has often used robots as metaphors to discuss humans and society and instead a lot of folks internalized that robots are going to be people and we need to be prepared for their civil rights struggles and the likelihood of human vs sentient robot wars
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 13/05/2026
The groundbreaking research into the KRAS protein that led to the development of daraxonrasib was funded in part by the NIH. Public funding is the bedrock of pharmaceutical research.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/05/2026
suddenly remembering i haven't plugged my newest in a while. i think everyone should buy and read the book SIMPLICITY which i'm just so tremendously proud of the further i get away from it
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
the pride and accomplishment I feel for my own success is somewhat undercut by the knowledge that I'd have been absolutely screwed entering the workforce as a baby writer today. Like outside of writing / journalism, I just have no idea in general how new adults are surviving on their own rn
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I wrote about billionaires whining about Mamdani and the teeny tiny tax he wants them to pay on their multimillion dollar pied-a-terres. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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The Billionaires’ Bathos Club
American plutocrats can’t stop whining about how extremely modest tax increases are killing their initiative.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/05/2026
BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
the moderation policy on this web site is that everyone is allowed to doxx and send death threats to trans people and also trans people aren't allowed to get mad about that or so much as gently mock their abusers and harrassers.
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Finch 🇵🇸 🇪🇭 @finchowar.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
There’s so much insane shit going on no one has commented on Trump saying “The Pope wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
RIP Tony Stella
Tony Stella’s poster for The Secret Agent
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/05/2026
Steve Scalise lies on Hannity of political violence that "the right is being attacked by the left over and over again"
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Steve Bernard @steve-bernard.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is a common misconception, but in US political jargon, “hindsight is 20/20“ means “leftists predicted this outcome at the time, but I find them personally annoying so I didn’t listen, and it’s actually their fault that I didn’t listen”. see also: climate change, every war ever, etc
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Elon Musk accidentally revealing his mom's account is one of his alt's means that he has both impersonated his own infant child and mother online
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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 03/05/2026
Strange things are happening in the Ozarks
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
But I was told we needed to tone down the rhetoric
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Moppie Waffles @moppiewaffles.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
To quote the Mountain Goats: It’s a good day for transphobes to eat shit.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 21/04/2026
Twitter is a clear example of how this works. Musk claims he is a free speech purist, but then he changes the algorithms to do this. This is not a free and fair marketplace of ideas where the best ideas win! It is corrupted, a funhouse—not free but selectively boosted speech.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/04/2026
Premium newsletter: The 16k word Hater's Guide To Private Credit - a comprehensive guide to the massive, opaque and barely-regulated loan industry gambling with $1.5tr+ of retirement and insurance funds - and how software and AI may break its back. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-privatecredit/
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Premium: The Hater's Guide to Private Credit
A few years ago, I made the mistake of filling out a form to look into a business loan, one that I never ended up getting. Since then I receive no less than three texts a day offering me lines of cred...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
incredible stuff
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
And finally: K grants These support post-docs and early career researchers. Landing one of these can be your ticket to a tenure track gig. They're career-makers. # of new grants issued through April 15 in FY2024 (the last “normal” year): 374 FY2025: 252 FY2026: 140
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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Hey everybody, @hyperfixed is trying to cap off a very strong April by hitting a big milestone for us - 3500 premium members. Right now, we are at about 3437, so we have like 60 and some change to go! Premium members get access to bonus episodes and merch discounts and a truly fantastic community.
hyperfixedpod.com
Hyperfixed | Hyperfixed
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/04/2026
Yeah I have never been more sure something was up with the quality of the underlying assets of private credit. This is as close to a “my shirt that says we’re nothing like the banks during the great financial crisis” tweet as we’ve had yet
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Today's private credit business development companies (BDCs) are levered ~ 30x less than banks before the GFC.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I'm from Minnesota. This is attempted murder.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The magazine that brought you "FAQ: The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense" and "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" bring you Isaac Chotiner's interview with Santa and it is OUTSTANDING. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
SPLIT IN HALF? The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF? I got nothing folks. Trials. Prison. Everyone. If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 05/12/2025
The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The annual 2023 figures for US ped / cyclist fatalities from collisions with motor vehicles are about 7,300 / 1,100, respectively. The US is so built around car use that drivers are enraged by policies that add friction for them. They will harangue elected officials about it until they relent.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/12/2025
After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to @kutnews.bsky.social and The Texas Newsroom. All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
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Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.
Months after fighting to keep secret emails between Gov. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk, Texas officials released 1,400 pages of records. But they reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s i...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Good reminder that Trump was guilty of an egregious crime simply in Georgia, let alone the rest of the country, and should have served a significant stint in prison. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Last Big Case Against Trump Has Been Dropped
The U.S. justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold the president and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
So our campus just announced the six undergraduate programs being put on the chopping block. One of them is Philosophy. Philosophy. Can we be a university without offering a Philosophy major?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract. If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers. www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
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Donate to Support Individualized Shirt Workers United, organized by Gabor Ptacek
Since this summer, worker leaders at Individualized Shirts have been organizi… Gabor Ptacek needs your support for Support Individualized Shirt Workers United
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/11/2025
This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/11/2025
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters”

The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist.

But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building.

I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The same road this picture was taken. My neighborhood.
A line of riot police, armored, wreathed in the smoke of the chemical weapons they used against grieving children and grandmothers. Behind them a city bus proclaims through the smoke, "not in service."
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 28/11/2025
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 28/11/2025
Or this one blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/20/a...
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A Tragic Homecoming For Man Killed By ICE Agents In Franklin Park
After nearly two decades in Chicago, Silverio Villegas González returned to Michoacán in a coffin. His death at the hands of federal agents left two families divided by borders, shattered with grief, ...
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 28/11/2025
Or this one www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Bodycam videos show ICE agents’ initial reactions to fatal Chicago shooting
Video from local police who first responded to the scene provides crucial context, since the immigration agents weren't wearing body cameras.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 28/11/2025
Or this one www.latimes.com/california/s...
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U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The greatest innovation billionaires have come up with is they found a way to have billions of dollars and still be miserable and angry all the time
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Daily bunny no.3145 helps out with flight ptraining
A bunny on a cliffside releases a small pterosaur into the air. It is a prehistoric setting, and another larger pterosaur is taking off next to him
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I don't know a single trans person who hasn't lost another trans person in their circle. Please hold them in your hearts today, even if their names are new to you. And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/11/2025
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)
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Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
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