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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Listening to some American Football, might follow up with some vintage Deathcab for Cutie
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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i am fine with infighting among coalitions, though i'll admit i've found the recent round particularly tiresome. they were trying to delete people's votes en masse and we only win because, presumably, roberts, coney barrett, and gorsuch are pissed about gas prices. united front against fascism ppl
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The plot of the Netflix Ghost in the Shell sequel - not the remake - starts after AI causing a simultaneous global default
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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 10/09/2026
young people romanticize the 90’s because the aesthetics are neat and they like the jeans or whatever but I think it’s hard to convey to someone who wasn’t there the world was so SMALL. it was claustrophobic compared to what we have now. in every dimension, from cooking to media to communication
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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
48% actually. I keep this graph on my phone
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sharing this relevant 2023 article on the perspectives on traffic cameras in Boston. mass.streetsblog.org/2023/11/16/c...
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'Cameras Don't Have Guns' – Boston's Black Community Weighs In On Camera-Based Traffic Enforcement - Streetsblog Massachusetts
As Massachusetts lawmakers continue to debate a legal framework for camera-based traffic law enforcement, a former Boston transit planner has compiled some useful advice from neighborhood leaders in B...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
a huge part of why we are here is because people in positions of power, including at ostensibly liberal institutions, wanted either themselves or their friends to be able to grope women again.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I think the thing we are all in denial about when it comes to the One Cool Trick to win elections forever is that low info swing voters are basically incomprehensible eldritch horrors to politically engaged people. There’s no understanding them and you’ll go mad trying.
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
What Max Miller’s case really illustrates that if you are a wealthy conservative and there’s obvious physical evidence of child abuse the authorities will wait until the case is airtight to charge. But if you’re a gay liberal Dem any call gets you 24 hours of separation from your kids.
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I definitely hope it is!
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Isn’t the answer to this essentially the executive order expansion? He’s able to run the whole government without a functional congressional partner via executive orders and cronies. That feels like the precedent, right?
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
People have opinions and they believe in them and argue for them. I’ve done it, you’ve done it. We can and should hold ourselves accountable but nobody would pass the “I told you you’re full of shit and you didn’t immediately acquiesce” test.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 23/07/2026
Once again screaming: Before modern medicine, the NATURAL way of doing things (giving birth, fighting/preventing diseases, treating wounds, etc) was DYING. A LOT of people died, all the time. Mothers died, babies died; rich or poor, if you got a thing we couldn’t treat yet, ya dead. THAT’s natural.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.
Chart of the polio vaccine obliterating poliochart of the measles vaccine smashing measles into bits
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
what's especially stupid is WMATA (of all agencies) has cracked the code on how to address this: - people in a uniform (not cops) present to deter kids from doing stupid shit and drug use - fare gates that's it, that's the secret
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/07/2026
Ossoff: “You refuse to answer a simple matter of the fact about the 2020 election.” Clayton: “I’ve given you my answer.” Ossoff: “What is your answer?” Clayton: *doesn’t answer* Ossoff: “Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question?”
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 13/07/2026
Housing opponents will use literally any argument that they think will convince policymakers to delay, shrink, or kill a project. If you address their stated concerns, they will simply move to a different argument. They do not engage in good faith because they oppose any and all neighborhood change.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
i think that routine mass starvation that every generation before my great-grandparents lived throuhg was worse imo
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It’s a major part of his autobiography
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Entirely related, because nobody does effective policy around tech. Nobody.
A Natalie Horburg black-and-white cartoon.

A passenger on the right speaks to the driver on the left:

"Remember, it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead, use
the giant iPad built into the car."
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026
It’s funny because when kids ride dirt bikes in the city it’s taken as proof we need a totalitarian police state.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
There is something terribly wrong with a polity where supposedly pro-democracy Senators pose in seersucker with the supporters of lawless authoritarianism, who also happen to be the prime enablers of the trillionaires who have committed unprecedented constitutional crimes & mass murder 🤷‍♂️
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 09/06/2026
I would say Wood's most influential idea is that the American Revolution unleashed republican/liberal ideas that were uncontainable — well beyond what the founders originally imagined. It set off a chain reaction that reoriented societal hierarchies and continued to do so over time.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 10/06/2026
“Above all, the HR Lady represents a woman’s ability to tell a man ‘no.’ And to judge him for refusing. Those twin sins supersede all others.” www.liberalcurrents.com/gender-graha...
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Gender Graham Crackup
For the antifeminist leftist, the HR Lady symbolizes the empty triumph of managerial liberalism and girlboss feminism, to be vanquished by a pair of sapient Carhartts.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
pack the court or lose the republic
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Absolutely see the vision!
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"For the third straight time, a Dem president handed a GOP president an economy that was at the least pretty good...for the third straight time, the GOPer made things worse." Essential @mjtoma.bsky.social: Trump's policies are directly to blame in a truly rare way: newrepublic.com/article/2105...
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When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.
Donald Trump is different in many ways from the Republican presidents who preceded him. But there’s one way he’s exactly the same.
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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It’s gonna be really interesting to see how the current situation plays out. It was interesting, watching for example, the rollout of cellular banking in Africa, where they could just skip over the whole intermediate portion of the development of the industry. Seems like solar might go the same way.
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I’m starting to look for my own set up! Can’t wait for the law to take effect.
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Good point
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
There’s no commuter train from Chattanooga to Atlanta?!
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Duaa Eldeib @deldeib.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Gonna need a moment to process the fact that the cities gaining Black residents are not the ones with the strongest rent control laws, but the ones that are building housing.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/04/2026
I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said
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Six Conservative Activists Killed the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026
Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 25/04/2026
The First Amendment applies to immigrants! This is obviously true! There needs to be such a reckoning over this
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Honestly I think the result would be better if that’s all they did.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The simpler a potential change appears, the more likely that it has not been implemented because it features deceptive complexity that others have tried and failed to resolve. From an interview of an IRS employee who worked on Direct File donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...
I think that anyone who comes into government and wants to make change goes through a period of, like, understanding just how difficult it is to accomplish and just how just what the scope and scale of complexity that you’re dealing with…someone should patent a law that states that the easier a project looks in government, the harder it is to do in reality. The justification being: if it looks really easy and common sense, it means that 20 people have already thought about it and tried it before you, and they’ve all failed because it’s still around…They don’t know what skills are necessary to do this work because I don’t think they understand the complexity of the work. And meanwhile are creating an environment where the people who do know how to do that work either are being forced out by being fired or are not interested in sticking around.
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Please write about this!!
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Is the tsunami gonna hit before the midterm? At this point it’s my only hope.
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 11/04/2026
Democrats should take it as a personal insult that this man has the gall to run for governor of our largest state while knowing what he did.
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Rie Merritt @justrie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Watching @maddow.bsky.social tonight and she showed the blueprint of the proposed warehouse turned ICE Detention Facility in Georgia. Each dot represents a human bring. 10,000 dots. She asked "what does this remind you of?" I immediately knew the answer. A slave ship on the middle passage.
Blueprint of a proposed ICE facility. Blueprint of a slave ship on the Middle Passage, designed to bring Africans to the Americas to be enslaved.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries
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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
That description brings the drawings of slaves laid out packed into ships to mind immediately.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
SoH transits from Lloyd’s List:
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