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MTBinDurham

@mtbindurham.bsky.social
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Durmite, pain in the ass. Reconstituting this handle from birdsite after period of dormancy for purposes of posting about sporting things, politics, religion, vulgarity, music, antifascism, and horrible, horrible puns. Avi: Biscuits + Banjos fest

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Been on my bullshit for 10 years now, but some folks really need to understand that Bernie Sanders rose because he was basically the only politician with a modicum of power in Washington who espoused democratic socialist views when the demand for such positions became overwhelming. He's just okay.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/09/2026
Here’s what’s important for you to know real pastors don’t support you becoming a trad wife… because there has never been a point in history where it has been in the best interest of women to solely depend on the benevolence of men for their wellbeing
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anthropic's denials mean *nothing*, just like how OpenAI's denials over Navier–Stokes mean *nothing*. These companies have shown time and again they have no idea what their AI is doing. The LLM agents—given "/goal" persistence and few if any limits—surely reviewed all they could, including chats.
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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well this sucks.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was just pointing out a couple of days on here that this is the LOWEST HANGING FRUIT of low hanging fruit for Democrats to promise if they take control of Congress. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE from $7.25. It has not risen since 2009. It's criminal.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ve floated, “GET YOUR HAND OUT MY POCKET, FOOL” for this purpose. So far no takers.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16/09/2026
I spoke to an array of religious freedom experts for this piece. Christopher Lund, a professor at Wayne State University Law School, told me: “The kind of pressure that DHS policy now is exerting on houses of worship is just a different kind of religious interference than we’ve had before."
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Democrats keep reminding me of the counterpoint in this classic. theonion.com/its-all-abou...
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It's All About The Benjamins vs. Actually, The Benjamins Are Only A Small Part Of A Larger Set of Concerns
Yo, who y’all think you be foolin’ tryna act all hard and shit? I ain’t tryna hear you talkin’ ’bout how you be all this and that. Y’all wanna be ballers, shot-callers and brawlers? Y’all wanna be a j...
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Me: OK, BRAIN, WE ONLY HAVE AN HOUR TO WORK ON THIS PERSONAL PROJECT.

My brain: Y'KNOW WHO I BET HAS AN INTERESTING WIKIPEDIA PAGE?
BUN E. CARLOS FROM
CHEAP TRICK.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have a cousin who was constantly putting me on game with ways that I could get out of my J-O-B and not do all that “smart shit cuz.” I finally explained to them that I LIKE all the smart shit, did in fact choose to do it for a living, and I am very good at it. They never really believed me.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anyway, shout out to trans people for letting me know what Newsom was all about. Because without that info, I never would have went digging and discovered how chummy he is with white supremacists and how he runs up on homeless people.
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the US's reckless decision to attack Iran without a coherent strategic plan has been a disaster for our regional allies, but of course there have also been downsides
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It was worth enduring Joe Manchin’s obvious corruption because his personal brand made it possible to elect a Democrat in West Virginia. The same should be true for New York. by Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'd rather be cool and wrong than cringe and right.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.
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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I said it'll be "full of grief and brilliance" and goddamn it's been a while since I nailed a prediction like that. (not that it was a hard one, mind.)
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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I wasn't ready for where this thread went, but I'm glad I read it anyway.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
She was a brilliant songwriter with a gorgeous voice. She could act! She was an important philanthropist and visionary whose understanding of giving back we may never fully see. She used her platform to stand up for what's right. And phew, she was down to earth and funny AF always.
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Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle Playing Their Acrylic Nails (1987)
YouTube video by Back to the Past
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"You got a new book from Dolly!" is something we get to say to our kids twice a month
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
They can't make you work past 5 on the day Dolly Parton dies, it's illegal
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Clear the spot for the Parton Center
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 25/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/w...
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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okie (they/them) @okie.gay · 25/08/2026
Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Watch it head directly for Mar-a-Lago.😈
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s weird that people feel like if you’re hot, you’re entitled to date somebody who is as hot as you lol. Otherwise you’re ’dating down.’ As if the most important thing in the equation of dating is looks. Which I’m not going to deny is important. But also, is it everything?
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton on her favorite books 💖 “Not enough folks know what a great book ‘Kindred’ by Octavia E. Butler is. It’s kind of tricky to describe but somehow it all works — it’s about race relations and there’s time travel and romance. It’s powerful.” safe travels. www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/b...
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Dolly Parton Likes to Read by the Fire in Her Pajamas (Published 2020)
“Especially on a rainy day off … sitting in a comfy chair.”
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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
-why is it the ONLY unforgivable sin?" And then she told me, "I finally figured it out. The Holy Ghost is that part of God that lives in everybody, and the way you sin against it is by not loving everybody with all your heart, for exactly who they are."
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Dolly Parton - Travelin' Thru [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by NettwerkMusic
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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton ❤️ Here's a lovely Dolly story: We worked together on "Transamerica." She told me that the bible passage that used to puzzle her the most was, "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." She said, "How the heck do you sin against the Holy Ghost, and-
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Wuf 멍멍 @bongrot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One of my favorite anecdotes. She embodies revery of others without compromising love of self — joyous just for the love of the game
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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Why yes, I'm here haunting Tressie's profile because I know her take on Dolly is going to be full of grief and brilliance. And in the meantime I'm just RT'ing her other stuff.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am still betting that in about 10 or 12 years -- certainly before I retire to a mountain lake community to open a bookstore-slash-food-truck, the entire social media era will be viewed as some kind of aberration.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
People are positively terrified of performing the wrong affect. They broadcast their fear by critiquing other people’s affect, especially folks who they believe define the norms. Which I know you know.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A few very minor quibbles about the early history of the star machine which aren’t that important, this is about dead on. Blonde studies.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/08/2026
“Invasive searches like ALPR database queries must require a judicial warrant,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @fastcompany.com. “Policymakers must seize this moment—when even the leading ALPR vendor has admitted they have done too little to prevent abuse—to, at minimum, codify real protections into law.”
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Why we love to hate Flock
The license plate reader company has become a lightning rod for surveillance concerns. But getting rid of Flock doesn’t necessarily get rid of the surveillance.
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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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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026
I think about this a lot.
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eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hi, I'm an appendix!"
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Sylvia Wrath @tree26.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Love when Amanda Marcotte goes on this show
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
guys that's.... that's not the ira @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tears tears and more tears
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/08/2026
This is the last race I was tracking, so of the 12 clergy, former clergy and seminarians who ran for Congress this year as Dems, 8 became nominees/won their primaries — and among those who lost was a UMC minister who was *beaten by a Presbyterian minister.* Pretty high intra-party success rate.
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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Free as in puppy" should be awarded the internet phrase of the year right now because nothing is going to top it. My stars. The truth that conveys in four words is mind-blowing.
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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
PCUSA General Assembly (the national body of the largest Reformed/Calvinist denomination in the US) just passed a resolution opposing Christian Nationalism. myga.pc-biz.org/search/3001498
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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
this is how it’s done, you don’t ignore the bullshit, you confront it anywhere and everywhere. on camera, in private, online, via carrier pigeon idc, the worst thing you can do is let people know you won’t fight for them.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
jobs.gusto.com
Social Media Lead, InfoWars at Global Tetrahedron
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