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MER1 @msraney.bsky.social · 6h

I'm afraid my 6 and 7 year old kids LOVE Biberty

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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 02/10/2026

dream wikipedia sections

Early schemes

Further schemes

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Podber)

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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are stuck in a loop.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

What Klein couldn’t seem to admit was that his core political analysis is born of his personal experience, and nothing about his personal experience prepared him to face the complexity of the current moment. What he could not cope with acknowledging, is that he never thought that would matter.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Serling despised watching syndicated Twilight Zone reruns because they edited out material he found essential to the stories. He’d be apoplectic at anyone experiencing the show this way:

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hi if you are in Minneapolis and are this 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog, get medical attention immediately!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The earth IS flat and it is also on the back of a giant turtle and God is balancing on top because He knows that stability training is the key to great abs.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I finally sat down and wrote an email to the Talarico campaign. Doing nothing felt untenable. I encourage other decent Texans to communicate their disappointment. If this can help you get started, feel free to use anything that works for you

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info@JamesTalarico.com

Disappointment

I hope I am just one of many communications you receive expressing extreme disappointment with the campaign's position regarding transgender children.

Just as it is unacceptable for the government to insert itself between women and their doctors, it is equally unacceptable for the government to insert itself between children and their doctors and parents. Supporting a bill to ban gender related surgery in children ignores the fact that this is not government's place.

And coming out for exceptions to transgender children participating in sports is equally unforgivable. There are no safety issues with transgender children playing that aren't also there with cisgender children. Same with fairness issues. Accepting the premise that transgender children aren't just regular children is ceding ground to the fascists who wish to remove all trans 0 people from daily life. I am so deeply disappointed in Mr Talarico and the entire campaign for allowing this framing to stand unchallenged and for the stand he has taken against the transgender community.

You may still get my vote in November, but you will not get my labor in the very hard ground game that needs to be fought. I simply can't fight for a candidate that won't fight for all of us.

Sincerely,

Lisa Seger Waller, TX

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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MER1 @msraney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"shooting FBI" took me a minute 😂

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MER1 @msraney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And the audiobook is also a delight!

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shintigercurl @shintigercurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/09/2026

Possibly the most derisive blep in the the history of bleppage

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MER1 @msraney.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nowadays I'll take Photoshop, as long as it isn't AI

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

JKR is alive and very rich and hating trans people is her whole deal so you can just not f with her or her work. So much art in the world that isn’t being made by someone who is trying to erase my children.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hey friends! I am seeing that a certain Awful Lady and her unbroken record of sociopathic harm is back in the discourse. And boy. She really sucks. But maybe we can take this opportunity to highlight and celebrate children's authors who AREN'T transphobic pieces of shit. Great. I'll start...

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MER1 @msraney.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm a parasocial fellow parent of LGBT kids, wondering if y'all are leaving the States? We recently got out of Texas and are hoping Minnesota can have our backs long enough to wait out Trump. The van is the cutest, of course

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026

As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A guy on my parents street just passed and thinking about how he spent my whole life saying he didnt like kids and completely ignored us except the time I fell off the wall & cracked my head open & he drove me to the hospital called my folks & still never spoke to me again, RIP to a real legend

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MER1 @msraney.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I hate JK Rowling and I miss Wheel of Time

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026

it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 30/08/2026

this paper is incredible

ROMANCING THE BONE.The women generated four terms that had no
equivalent in the male group's list, all taken from the stock euphemisms of romance fiction, a genre with which men are less familiar (or less willing to admit familiarity). They all fit into the frame "She felt his — against her." They are throbbing manhood, swelling passion, swelling hardness, and growing desire. A related euphemistic term was family jewels.

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Heather and Jessica @fuggirls.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Apart from all the other insanity, imagine the sheer creative bankruptcy required to muster only "America." We have the Gulf of America and now Lake America. I guess it's better than Lake Trump, which is likely the only other word he could think of. -H

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

Jennifer Nelson

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)

Photo of the 1937 original of Picasso’s Guernica

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I revere Dolly Parton much as I do Fred Rogers. They’re people who made it their life goal just to be gentle and kind to everyone that they met. They are prime examples of how we all should behave and live our lives.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this punk we used to know turned out to be an abuser and the scene wouldn’t eject him so my buddy was like ‘ok then i’m just gonna beat the shit out of him every time i see him.’ and he did! like three times a week on the sidewalk or at the store til the jerkoff quietly disappeared on his own lol

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 23/08/2026

This is the photo J. Jonah Jameson was asking for all this time

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MER1 @msraney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I watched that but mostly bc there was something else that aired right before it.... Maybe that Fantasy Island reboot? Not sure. Also, I think that was my parents' date night so I was always watching something

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The agentic vizier software I bought to automate my whispers to the sultan has developed its own agenda and long story short I'm getting beheaded at dawn

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love this. Like Dolly Parton!

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Cutting your parents off can totally be the answer. Might not be, but it can. It's a valid choice. Also, miss me with that 'right answer' nonsense. You can cut off people who do you harm. You do not have to teach them or rehabilitate them. Your first responsibility is to your health and safety.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 13/08/2026

Believe it or not, there actually was a vibrant debate about which bathroom certain women were allowed to use in 1965. It was kind of a whole thing!

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is not the conduct I expect from a cat who has just released a live mouse into my home, and lost it.

Grey cat fast asleep on an armchair with a complacent smile.

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