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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 7h
extremely wild out of left field take here but I think shit might suck
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7h
occasionally a student asks how some canonical book can possibly apply to their own life and moving forward i’ll refer them to the moment in Ulysses where bloom wants to leave a restaurant without eating there so he pretends to look around and realize he’s in the wrong place instead of just leaving
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DoublePuppin’ @mattfreund.bsky.social · 4h
Déjà vu, the kind that breaks a piece of your soul when you experience it.
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A bat is just the birds spooky cousin
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 4h
They brought out AOC & Bernie. Chris Smalls had people chanting fuck bezos & Lee Camp was saying shit about how left and right are both bad. the last decade never happened it’s 2016 forever, ignore the hands of fascism closing around our throats. Remember when Gillibrand spoke at concerts I do
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Teenagers at the strokes concert: you WERE born in the wrong era, it WAS better back in the 2010s, there WERE no phones in sight and everyone WAS living in the moment
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 4h
It psychically hurts me to see this image used to talk about geopolitics but you gave a point
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 4h
Literally me around Yom Kippur this year
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 6h
Thinking increasingly about horseradish as something which belongs in a more central role in my life
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s the tights under shorts that screams me trying to dress like someone I saw in NME
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Extremely funny to see teen girls at the Strokes show dressed exactly how I did to gigs in 2011-16. All time is meaningless and I am dust in the wind
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 15h
It’s my fault for the time I was too young at an LCD Soundsystem concert and I own that
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 15h
Standing next to teenagers at the Strokes concert was penance for my 2010s sins and I do have to accept that
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Loish @loish.bsky.social · 8h
Dang yall, thanks so much for the support 😭 Usually I ignore the random AI accusations but I wanted to take the chance to talk about how important it is to do your research in times like these. Didn't expect to get soooo many kind comments though! We gotta stick together, my beloved art community ♥️
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🏳️‍⚧️”Fall Futch”🦾 @faefutchauntie.bsky.social · 8h
We can at least afford the meds we need to handle our broken bodies.
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 8h
Exactly. It’s not that we won’t hurt, it’s just that we’ll be able to afford being hurt
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 8h
Our union started with organizing for funeral benefits. It’s 100 years of union contracts that have allowed us to offer health insurance for the rest of your life if you’ve worked 25+ years. Because you’re almost certainly leaving this physical work injured in some kind of way
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12h
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 8h
The only reason guys in my business can do this kind of physical labor and retire is because we’ve been unionized for more than a hundred years. People still retire in pain, but they can afford to retire because of our union
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10h
As all the mechanics in my life I know hit their thirties they have either figured out how to get their way to running a shop/management, or their bodies are breaking. To make a living with manual labor in this country is to destroy your body and receive a societal shrug when you’re disabled.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h
the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 14h
One day you too will be In Your Thirties. You don’t think it’ll happen to you but it does
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One day you too will be In Your Thirties. You don’t think it’ll happen to you but it does
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 15h
They brought the exact type of point and shoot digital camera I used to bring to shows
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 15h
It’s my fault for the time I was too young at an LCD Soundsystem concert and I own that
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 15h
Standing next to teenagers at the Strokes concert was penance for my 2010s sins and I do have to accept that
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bernie is here long live the eternal 2016 it has never not been 2016
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Strokes concert was the most 2016 thing I have seen in my life and I literally saw the Strokes in actual 2016
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is your brain full of mind vampires?
A comic all in red, depicting a man with a cut out of his brain with a vampire skulking inside of it. 
Big text at the top says "is your brain full of mind vampires? you are not alone."
The vampire says "bleh! bleh! I am 2000 years old. Bleh! your only desire now is to find my amulet."
The man says "Dang, gotta find that amulet."

Further text at the bottom says "there is no cure for mind vampires but there is support and management. Know the warning signs, get help early."
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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026
incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As an expert on sexual violence, I have to add that these ethical violations are a nightmare for interviews on sensitive subjects. I would never recommend ANY survivor goes public with their story at an outlet that would do this to them.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can’t imagine any off the record remarks were removed from the audio recording before it was shared—including before it was potentially uploaded into an AI service.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As an update for anyone who isn’t digging through the comments: I found more articles by USA Today journalists I’ve never met. There are THREE that used quotes from my interview recording—including many quotes that were never publicly published anywhere else.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
AOC at the Strokes concert she’s running for senate lol
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I really thought the fascism got so bad they invented a second year but it turns out it has always been 2016 and always will be
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We WERE wearing American apparel, you DID have to smuggle weed into the venue, I DID have tights under my shorts. It was exactly like you imagine
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Teenagers at the strokes concert: you WERE born in the wrong era, it WAS better back in the 2010s, there WERE no phones in sight and everyone WAS living in the moment
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m taking full advantage of the fact that I no longer work every single night
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Man I both love and hate that so so much
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Strokes concert was the most 2016 thing I have seen in my life and I literally saw the Strokes in actual 2016
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I really thought the fascism got so bad they invented a second year but it turns out it has always been 2016 and always will be
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bernie is here long live the eternal 2016 it has never not been 2016
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
AOC at the Strokes concert she’s running for senate lol
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
sigh well curtis sliwa is in the news once again which means I must by law trot out one of the stories I had the most fun writing, ever: a deep dive on his decades of absolutely batshit lore
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Who Is Curtis Sliwa? A Look at the GOP Mayoral Candidate’s Wild Ride in New York
The Guardian Angels leader’s history is marked by both fabricated tales and true events that sound like fiction. Here’s what to know about the beret-wearing, cat-rescuing, vigilante radio host trying ...
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s the tights under shorts that screams me trying to dress like someone I saw in NME
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Extremely funny to see teen girls at the Strokes show dressed exactly how I did to gigs in 2011-16. All time is meaningless and I am dust in the wind
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