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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h

It was literally just to prove that he was in the Atlanta area within a 24-48 hour timeframe. That's it. That's all Schmitt needed to weave his Deep State conspiracy theory about Jack Smith making a secret trip to visit Fani Willis and collude with her on jailing Trump and his allies.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

VPN bans are a direct response to age-verification. Legislators are frustrated that people are getting around their surveillance, but rather than rethink their strategy, they're doubling down and banning VPNs. Fight the Flock-ing of the internet.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.

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Nathan J Caboose @nathanjcaboose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They also say "this could ruin his life," as though his life doesn't deserve to be ruined. Here's a secret about men, coming from a man myself: we can control ourselves. We can stop ourselves. We know right from wrong. The ones who rape know it's wrong. They absolutely deserve to be ruined for it.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You ever think about how between the end of USAID, the Iran War, and whatever horrid plague RFK Jr. unleashes, the backlash to Me Too will probably kill more people than the backlash against the actual literal act of war on 9/11?

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026

A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:

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Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid

“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Disabled people make society uncomfortable. Left or right…. It doesn’t matter. People want to believe it can’t happen to them. That if they become disabled there will be a magic “fix”. We challenge their denial, so they deny us solidarity and support. That’s ableism.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Europe’s biggest economy, Germany, has committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045. The plans include ramping up renewable energy from 55% to 80% of electricity generation by 2030. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045

Campaigners say plan marks notable shift away from oil and gas as previously pledges were only for carbon neutrality

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinning the herd with preventable infectious diseases for sport is what they promised. And they delivered.

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Doctor @doctor42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

oh, the bad publicity made the line go down somewhere

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God @thegodshow.com · 25/09/2026

Trump's press ban just totally backfired on him again.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026

They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

He did it, this is the final boss level of white people going can I say it?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But wage theft is at an all-time high. So what I'm saying is that the Republican agenda is working.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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Bleak⋆Squeak @bleaksqueak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

go.bsky.app/Ps5BkPj

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I truly hope Bungie can turn things around - the new direction for Marathon sounds quietly exciting, Destiny deserves to be playable in its entirety - but it's impossible to think of a clearer example of the ways in which livelihoods in this industry are controlled by people who are Not Smart

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Nathan J Caboose @nathanjcaboose.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't care so much that Lauren Boebert is apparently not straight or that she was unfaithful. I care about the hypocrisy. Espousing "family values" while secretly shitting on them, and secretly being in a homosexual relationship while publicly fighting against LGBTQ+ rights, is really shitty.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 21/09/2026

The fact that business folks/MBAs cannot look more than a fiscal quarter into the future is one of the reasons we can't have nice things. We need to stop listening to these people. You want churn? This is how you get churn.

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GamesRadar+ @gamesradarplus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

2 billion years of Minecraft running in a simulation finds that the game can roll credits all on its own: "The same golem wandered The End for 18 million years" www.gamesradar.com/games/minecr...

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2 billion years of Minecraft running in a simulation finds that the game can roll credits all on its own: "The same golem wandered The End for 18 million years"

How Enderman, Creepers, and pumpkins beat Minecraft

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 21/09/2026

You really wanna see the problem… in 1994, the Supreme Court of the state of North Carolina said That students have a constitutional right to a sound, basic education.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 20/09/2026

A real friend never asks you to hide your colors🌈 Some eyes see only two genders, but kind hearts see more. Closed minds and harsh words cannot put out your light. Shine in the way you were born to shine. Chiitan is an ally of transgender people🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Del @del.art · 20/09/2026

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Community-owned renewable energy capacity across National Grid Electricity Distribution’s regions to reach 1.5GW by 2035 under an ambitious growth scenario. www.energylivenews.com/2026/09/18/l...

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Locally owned renewables could be vital to energy system - Energy Live News

National Grid say shared ownership could deliver up to 64% of new community-owned capacity by 2035

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ABCDelphi @abcdelphi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I swear I'm soo brain broken by modern gaming. Just bought the physical version of Tears of the kingdom for the switch 2. I'm low key soo shocked it just started straight away with no 100GB download. Like wtf...they gaslit me into thinking that shit is impossible these days!

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Nathan J Caboose @nathanjcaboose.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This one goes out to the centrist democrat who said "wipe that orange jizz off your face" when I criticized Joe Biden for being sleepy. I will never stop demanding better of my elected officials, and I will not be shamed for it. Fuck anyone who thinks I should shut up and drink the kool-aid.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I printed this and posted it above my desk. I'd change only the last line to "I am the FUCK YOUR FEELINGS - EVERYONE'S RIGHTS ARE ON THE LINE left".

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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Parody] @nintendooamerica.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hate to break it to ya pal, but Super Mario Bros. 2 isn't an original game. Yea. Blew your mind, didn't I? It's actually a reskin of the Japanese game Sonic & Knuckles. That's why Peach can glide, cause of her dreadlocks.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mainers have more questions for you, Senator Collins. Care to answer?

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