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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't think the robots are going to kill us all but I think there is a real-but-low probability that the robots make cybercrime cheap enough that the modern Internet can no longer exist
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
by artist Ginny Robbins
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Creative nonfiction rejections hurt even more than fiction rejections.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Case of the Mondays
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
9 am Monday morning form rejections don't really match with "we carefully considered"
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No friend of mine has ever said anything like this to me. In fact, nobody, friend or not, has ever said anything like this to me.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
Jill Tucker
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K ViewsJill Tucker
@jilltucker
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’d love to read, say, 1200 words from a really good writer on why exactly the reflecting pool thing has turned into the durable embarrassment across media that a lot of other, equally public scandals or screwups could have been in the previous 18 months
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.dotdisplay()TAURUSForUkraine🇺🇦 @ddotdisplay.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I’m really glad President Zelenskyy is saying this out loud. More people need to realize this.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This was fun. Can't believe I got them Connections Puzzle #1060 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
'helena bonham carter' is now its own style in and of itself
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Holy moley Connections Puzzle #1058 🟩🟦🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟪🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟩🟦🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I’m listening to seasoned reporters talk about how frightened they were during the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night and imagining how much worse it is for America’s children. If there’s ever been a time to pass sensible gun control laws, it’s now.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
You're back blue sky?
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I think the main problem with mainstream political journalism these days is the credibility given to clearly preposterous people
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This one was pretty fun Connections Puzzle #1025 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Roninspoon @roninspoon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I hope I live long enough to see the documentaries and revealing books about this era.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
What would my texts look like if I didn't unsubscribe from every rando democrat who hit me up for money
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is the message that needs to be repeated by the Democrats. There is a tomorrow, and there will be accountability for the corruption and anti-democratic behaviour of officials. No, this is not retribution, and no this doesn't apply to voters.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 20/02/2026
a cat in a tie sits outside of a factory. the cat says "Hope no one is weird to me." The factory is labeled "Being Weird Factory" and has the bluesky logo on it
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Justin (He/Them) @ingot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
That vid going around with the high school ice supporter is such a clear distillation of how they expect protection from the social contract while actively violating it. I'm so glad that kid punched him, knowing full well he'd get in trouble. Assholes use social norms as a shield.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Hoo boy! Connections Puzzle #982 🟨🟦🟪🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟦🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Arrrggghhh. I knew all of these. Don't know how I screwed it up Connections Puzzle #981 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟦 🟦🟨🟦🟦 🟨🟪🟪🟪
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Message of Savannah Guthrie to her mother Nancy’s abductor: “It’s never too late to do the right thing.” If you know anything about where Nancy Guthrie might be please contact 1-890-CALL-FBI
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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Bondi's contempt for the Rule of Law open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
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Bondi's contempt for the Rule of Law
The attorney general testifies before the House Judiciary Committee
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/02/2026
I'm going to win.
The way Ms. Hart sees it, romance writers must either embrace artificial intelligence, or get left behind. "If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who's going to win the race?" she said.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Fighting for my life Connections Puzzle #971 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟪🟦 🟪🟦🟦🟪 🟪🟦🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Anne Zanoni @ninja-ce.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Yep. The worst of it is that Mitch decided that even DJT couldn't overcome J6. _And he was wrong._ Never getting over a bunch of fools acquitting the man who sent a mob to murder them.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Woahhhh Connections Puzzle #967 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟪 🟦🟦🟪🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Has anyone been able to identify the “if you raise your voice, I erase your voice” agent? Because that’s someone who, for public safety, should be named and identified and warned about.
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Connections Puzzle #961 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I like to get mad at literary magazines that don't know I exist. That'll show 'em
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Wow. Ok Connections Puzzle #960 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Woah! Connections Puzzle #959 🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟨 gave up for hours 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Remembering warmer days
Me on the beach in a speedo
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Back... with a vengeance! Connections Puzzle #957 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It’s a lawless totalitarian occupation of an American city.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Agents like this should be identified and their name and picture posted on a searchable web site with videos and content like this linked to their names
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 08/01/2026
Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Another one pulled from my behind Connections Puzzle #939 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟪🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Pulled that outta nowhere Connections Puzzle #938 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟩🟪 🟨🟨🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟪🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
i think that people really underestimate reality that 1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man 2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually 3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
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ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social @ninthlevelmonk.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Literary magazines made it their New Year's resolution to send me rejections 😭
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Great Googly Moogly @mutiny32.com · 29/12/2025
This is what I've been saying. You have to fight this by destroying his legacy. And doing it with prejudice. There needs to be spectacle made of the destruction.
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