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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 10h
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Ona @onachrani.bsky.social · 13h
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 16h
People casually using genAI instead of their own creativity or capacity for thought genuinely feels like a huge values difference now, on a very fundamental level. We do not hold the same things to be important or worthwhile.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s so frustrating to see everyone how Black people, especially Black women, are treated on this app. I’m glad @tressiemcphd.bsky.social calls it out on the regular. I stay blocking these bamas but it’s seemingly endless. Racist gophers!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There remains an active campaign to reply-harass Black people off this platform and it is not on us to solve this problem. It’s on y’all.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.
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The Marginalian [Unofficial] @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
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The Canon of Solitude: 200 Years of Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a painting, a theorem — is to find the voice in the silence that has something to say to the world. In solitude, we may begin to hear in the silence the song of our own lives. “Give me solitude,” Whitman howled, “give me again O Nature your primal sanities!” Gathered here are some of my favorite voices in praise of solitude, of its ample creative and… read article
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's cool and awesome that every century or so we have to relearn the hard lessons about why we invented government because some dumb motherfuckers forget that the cornerstone of Civilization is a thousand boring little bureaucrats doing their job, not Great Men Being Violent.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 26/09/2026
How do you know this doc has Elon rattled? Because all of the other oligarchs are trying to protect his ego. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think we need to take seriously that ordinary folks aren't meant to have audiences in the tens of thousands or more. This is novel and disruptive in human experiences
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If I find out that everybody but me has been high this whole time, I am gonna be livid.
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Your daily affirmation: Like antlers, it's time for you to branch out, become sharper, and get more weathered and beautiful with age.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fascinating
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Ulrike @ulidig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New cat species just dropped! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Ona @onachrani.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A family of Australian grifters making money off fake news and no, not *that* family:
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/09/2025
So when we are ridiculing the fascists that is NOT the time to ponder our collective being and finding the good in everyone
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/09/2025
you are in a fight... and you need to use all available tools to secure your well being
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/09/2025
what you think you are in... you are not in you are not in a moment of equal consideration you are not in a moment where you life is equally valued you are not in a moment where facts, truth, and data is prioritized
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/09/2025
very good i am glad you all came... a few words on our collective moment
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/09/2025
"we are better than this" i am telling your right now... no we are not find the courage to be what the moment requires
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 15/09/2026
AI data centers can change a community long before anyone realizes what’s coming. Today, I spoke before the Brewster County Commissioners Court about what Texans are already seeing elsewhere: pollution, constant noise, rising housing costs, and the loss of our dark Texas skies.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's rad that Meta used a David Bowie song to advertise their AI and it's about how there are only five years before the apocalypse and they surely had no idea because these tech assholes have literally zero comprehension skills. Got to hand it to them. Dumbest bunch of motherfuckers alive.
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monique @thejournalista.com · 15/09/2026
"AI crusader and MAGA ally Elon Musk is currently being accused of funding a fake voter registration website that is designed to steal and sell people’s data to third-party businesses, and, well — yeah, that sounds about right."
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Vote Safe Website Is A Scheme Todd Set Up. Don’t Fall For It [Op-Ed]
OPINION: The site claims to help voters navigate the election process ahead of the November 3 midterm election, but it's actually a data-mining operation that isn't registering people to vote at all.
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Ona @onachrani.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Furious. The show Furious comes to mind right now.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We don’t talk enough about how much of our days have become entangled in determining what’s real. What’s genuine. What’s human or what’s synthetic. What’s worth our time after having already spent it. It’s a grotesque skill we’ve all been forced to master, and a waste of energy none of us can spare.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Genius. (Sound on 🔉) @nonewdatacenters.bsky.social
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/09/2026
"McClatchy, whose titles include The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, executed its most severe layoffs in years on Thursday, cutting newsroom staff at some papers by upwards of 40%." I don't know if democracy can survive this death of this industry. www.poynter.org/business-wor...
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McClatchy cuts more than 90 staff in its most severe layoffs in years - Poynter
At least 13 papers — including The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and The Kansas City Star — lost reporters
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Ona @onachrani.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When dealing with any situation, but especially those where emotional stakes are high: Would you rather be right or would you rather be effective?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026
AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
True that! #music #activism
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.’ ~ James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son. #BookWormSat #ReadABookDay 🖼️ Christian Schloe
Digital painting of a wooden ship fitted with large feathered bird wings instead of fabric sails sailing in a dreamlike, star-studded sky filled with soft, glowing clouds and a lone figure standing at the bow of the ship.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
a nazi pedophile that loves data centers is fully funding the republican partys midterm efforts
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OH SHIT DUDES THIS IS A VERY BIG DEEAL I have spoken before, you may recall, of my suspicion that Leo dropping the hammer on SSPX this summer was the first step to a bigger purge of which Opus Dei is the final boss. if Francis was ready to kick them out before he died, Leo would have known that
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
this, more than anything, is why the elite have continued to back him even as he plunges into historical levels of unpopularity “we can be complete assholes without consequence” is the best thing that ever happened to them and they will fight to the death to protect that right
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Ona @onachrani.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Freedom of speech never meant freedom from the negative consequences of unpopular speech. Bluesky is here to fix that:
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” -Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Receipts are fun! Sort of like when he said he didn’t know Epstein and there were pics of them taking a coastline stroll on pedo island No lie too big or small for Trump and his team of crooks (who think we are idiots) (From @acyn.bsky.social )
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 01/09/2026
There it is: Trump is *literally* pushing “Unhumans,” a book that encourages right-wing readers to view liberals and Democrats as “unhuman.” I raised the alarm on this extremely dangerous strategy in 2024 (and again last month): www.thenerdreich.com/why-trump-ke...
Donald Trump truth social post pushing for people to buy “Unhumans” book.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The current political moment has shown me how many people go through life frustrated that they don’t have the right state apparatus to indulge their worst urges. They‘re not “left behind”, they’re not “lonely”, they want to hurt other people. And this is their generational opportunity.
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