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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 08/10/2026

Today is a rare day where Twitter has more useful information than this website on a very important issue, so let's collate some of the ongoing discussions. 🧵 Here are the words straight from the mouth of a student organizer who went from interning for Mamdani to protesting him on the streets:

Wow. A student organizer leading protests against Zohran Mamdani tonight reveals that she previously interned for him.

Now she’s leading chants against the very politician she once worked for, accusing him of prioritizing his own political advancement over the people and movements that helped bring him to power.

She delivers an ultimatum: The protests can stop when Mamdani stops the sale of stolen Palestinian land in NYC and abolishes the CUNY Board of Trustees, which advances Israel’s interests within the nation’s largest urban public university system.

But she makes clear that she doesn’t expect him to deliver. In her view, Mamdani has become just another politician who makes promises to movements and then fails to meet their demands once in office.

What makes her testimony particularly significant is that she isn’t someone who opposed Mamdani from the beginning. She worked for him. She believed enough in his political project to participate in it. Now she’s publicly confronting him.

Her speech speaks to a broader frustration among people who placed their hopes in electoral politics as a vehicle for advancing Palestinian liberation. For some, the experience hasn’t strengthened their faith in political institutions. It has deepened their distrust.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

in a country where they are trying to make it illegal to protest i say: good. go nuts. let your freak flag fly. ive never understood liberal pearl clutching over what is quite literally the baseline civil liberty. politicians should be hectored 24/7

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they blew off a 15-year-old's hand a couple of days ago. never spread the lie that they are nonviolently trying to "keep the peace" no matter what country it's happening in

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to Nixon but we never knew how good we had it with his complexity

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we live in an era of mimics, doppelgängers, automata and inversions — an entire culture of dreadful, skinsuited parodies tyrants who speak of freedom, killers who brag of peace, thieves who promise plenty

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think we should start calling Online "The 'Net" again. Might discourage some of the behavior we've been seeing recently.

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

David Simon writing a new drama in which an evil Mayor targets a noble TV writer merely because of his reckless driving

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More specifically, "the left-hand path" has a meaning in occultism, referring to black magic (from the same etymology/concept).

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our culture is so full of shit when we act like we care about kids.

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was kinda the best episode of the season, but I'm not sure how high that bar is. Baffling show.

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think we should start calling Online "The 'Net" again. Might discourage some of the behavior we've been seeing recently.

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm just happy they're actually shooting on film this time and not doing the goofy print-to-scan thing

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I knew even as I asked that there was a chance the answer was something you'd written

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Has someone written the definitive Explainer for the Offline about the LessWrong new religious movement? Because that should be sent to everyone's inbox/mailbox.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 05/10/2026

Criminal not to mention the malign influence of Yudkowsky in this Trend. Easily the person most responsible for introducing gambling as epistemology to the tech crowd.

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How Everything Became Gambling

It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(becoming transparently insecure about not knowing this fact for some reason) Look, it's a real minefield trying to find biographies of Confederates that you know for sure aren't sneaking Lost Cause bullshit in there. You have to read reviews and everything. Maybe look at a subreddit.

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I like to think I'm decently well-read, but I'll admit that this is the first time I've heard of the camel thing

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kilometres d’avis @wwwwww.website · 05/10/2026

the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The problem with the anime industry is that it's full of otaku."

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As I’ve asked many times now, what constituencies does a university president represent? Because too often, the answer seems to not include anyone who works or studies at the university, and that seems like a problem.

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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Kate Sloan (she/her) @katesloan.com · 03/10/2026

shout-out to whoever put up posters in downtown Toronto offering “anarchist piano lessons,” call that the Goldman Variations (this joke is for like 2 nerds)

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Stone Butch Blue Velvet @jennyllello.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

HUGE piece of the puzzle falling into place realizing the guy running the website is Founder-Brained and does not actually make anything or operate anything or know how to find out information about the above two things

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sr. Producer/Editor – “Preditor” (Social Media/Short Form)
National Geographic

Washington, DC

$139,200 - $186,600 a year

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Adult Swim *turned down* a pitch from him, if I recall correctly

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A 3.5 is adequate but far from perfect, if we're talking about preservation (not sure how rare the demo is)

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

(guy with an avatar that looks like Satan) Now listen here, Pope,

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SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“no one elected you” no they very specifically did elect him. it’s a whole big thing. they made a movie with Ralph Fiennes about it

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm skeptical because I've seen this happen too many times now. Computer vision is used in historical archives & image collections, we're told it's imperfect and creates errors; but don't worry, people will go back and correct them.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nancy 10/1/26 … “Sluggo’s Terrible Hat” Part 4

Nancy vents to Aunt Fritzi, telling her she may have to break up with Sluggo because of his new hat. Fritzi thinks she’s being dramatic, until she sees the hat….

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Six Flags is so busted. What do you mean your parks' official ketchup is Hunt's

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have you seen him in Little Shop of Horrors? Great stuff.

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Look at how he just drew that guy's jaw as a straight line. Nonsense.

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i dislike the whole project but his paintings have always overwhelmingly struck me as NAIVE in a way that he doesnt seem to intend-- he's treating the illo as lowbrow and authorless and making a joke of putting it into Fine Art, but all i can see is man this fucker had no grasp of drawing at all lol

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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

David Simon writing a new drama in which an evil Mayor targets a noble TV writer merely because of his reckless driving

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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