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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 5h

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

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onthederive.bsky.social @onthederive.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i will say i think that for all that people are critical of the valorization of old-time labor, they don't understand that the point of all the soviet trucks and tractors propaganda was to try and alleviate this exact issue

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jen m is a spider in a window @patientspider.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I just did a search for "Huron Consulting" on bluesky for "reasons" and most of the posts are like this. Did not realize one company was the cause of almost all of the higher ed damage and destruction of recent years. One post called for some investigative reporting of this company. Much needed.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

yall ever just watch a wombat eating grass

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Tiffany Turrill @tiffanyturrill.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

every photo of red sprites is so sci fi horror, wow

first color image of a sprite, taken from an aircraft

red sprite visible from the international space station

Red sprites formed above thunderstorms in the southeast Aegean Sea, as captured from the eastern suburbs of Athens, Greece on December 4, 2021

Sprites over the Alps, close to Triglav, depicted in stack of images from Global meteor network

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 13/10/2026

do you ever think about how The Leftovers refracted the post-9/11 combination of madness grief fear and anomie into imperfect little pinhole-camera glimpses of the post-COVID future

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

These movements tried to compromise and work with the status quo to some extent and were rewarded with worse conditions for the movements they started. MeToo should’ve had a paramilitary wing and defund the police should’ve been a litmus test for politicians. Instead we have gone backwards

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026

Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message

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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Anti-hipster talking points of the early 2010s was a psyop dedicated to pushing algorithmic discovery-based monoculture and ultimately to get Gen-Z less comfortable going out for social activities, especially those in which spending/consumption arent the priority i.e. house shows/parties/hanging out

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

yeah the theft of Ukrainian children combined with the massacres and sexual violence in places like Bucha have a genuinely different character. that's why the 'in part or in whole' definition of genocide matters bsky.app/profile/himd...

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

US Big Tech putting its thumb on the scale for Flávio Bolsonaro.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

real existing people in the developing world were and are being killed by the destruction of usaid, which these people all supported, but people would rather discuss whether spicy clippy deserves his own state

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Few moments ago, an unmarked car with two federal agents tried to leave the Allen Hosptial, NYPD helped clear the way as protesters attempted to block the road. Several happening nowZ

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Given the career paths that are no longer viable, and the disinvestment in apprenticeship and the increasing surveillance we shoyld be speaking about what AI companies owe society, and the AI consciousness debate is an attempt to change the subject to what society owes the llms

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Telling a child that they were adopted is the hardest thing about being a party clown

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Sela: Calamitous @sela.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

<me trying to explain the gnome conspiracy to my monarch who doesn’t care> there are known gnomes, and unknown gnomes. there are also known unknown gnomes and unknown known gnomes. unknown unknown gnomes? oh you bet your ass we have those.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 04/10/2026

I get why some folks miss it, but women are the majority in Christian fundamentalist denominations, and in a lot of cases are the “intellectual” backbone for a lot of conservative men.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu at rest.

The Three Stooges sleeping on the same bed

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 02/10/2026

this guy's really tough to solo if you don't have the anglerfish amulet and the sword of davey jones

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onthederive.bsky.social @onthederive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i literally don't know what to do about these odious motherfuckers and the conclusion i keep coming to in my head about them is just fedposting. we have to get rid of these people, by any means necessary.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember when the Democratic party removed "ending the death penalty" from its 2024 platform.

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onthederive.bsky.social @onthederive.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

on a side note it is odd that people are all arguing about 'spread sheet people' while completely ignoring the classist valence of saying all your detractors are simply unemployed. somewhat strange, that.

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onthederive.bsky.social @onthederive.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

until any of you actually articulate a position that says something, anything meaningful about the class that owns this technology and how to effectively neuter them out of inserting themselves into every possible interaction, you are going to have huge blowback on this shit. you truly are.

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onthederive.bsky.social @onthederive.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

my only position on ai is i will only be willing to entertain nuance discussions on it after we have hanged every person in palo alto who makes more than a million dollars a year. until then I am flatly against and consider anyone who isn't a rube or a traitor.

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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 21/08/2026

theres too many kinds of doctors it should just be a mysterious woman who lives in a tree hut in a bog and has tinctures and salves for everything

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Any problem you have, odds are some exiled Chinese bureaucrat wrote a poem about it 3,000 years ago

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In the UK it's illegal to jump over a bench if you're trans.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

So, happy 92nd anniversary to this diary entry, whose last line you will not be able to predict

VENICE, August 20th, 1933. – Here as a joy-hog: a pleasant change after that pension on the Giudecca two years ago. We went to the Lido this morning, and the Doge's Palace looked more beautiful from a speed-boat than it ever did from a gondola. The bathing, on a calm day, must be the worst in Europe: water like hot saliva, cigar-ends floating into one's mouth, and shoals of jelly-fish. Lifar came to dinner. Bertie mentioned that all whales have syphilis.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

As has been the case for the last half decade, for all the interesting things AI may do, the average AI booster’s shortcomings will outweigh those interesting things tenfold

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I hate the genre of social media posts about all of the things that women have to do to stay safe and not get kidnapped or murdered in public, because even though it's framed as feminism, it's all just priming people to vote Republican for being tough on crime, while blowing danger out of proportion

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 17/08/2026

saw someone say that mamdani posting that mandarin video was "cultural appropriation" because he's "white adjacent." i fear that the feds are running dangerously low on funding

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

anytime castro discussion comes up and someone's clearly raging mad about him i think "hey, quick question, you wouldn't happen to have thoughts on the founding fathers that are somewhere in the ballpark of 'they were complicated figures who didn't always live up to our ideals, but-' would you"

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Dane Erland @mechanekton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Can't believe it's taken me a whole year to get another batch of lego #lancerrpg mechs built. Here's Big Sal, Manticore, Black Witch, Goblin, and Hecatoncheires.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think that in order to square this circle, we have to return to an understanding of academia that treats academics as working professionals in a specialized trade, and not elites in any meaningful sense of the word. Which means not fighting anti-science by trying to re-idolize scientists

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onthederive.bsky.social @onthederive.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

this is essentially how all previous american expansions have actually started, allowing private capital to create chaos which the united states government then comes in to 'pacify' in favor of its interests.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/08/2026

What a lot of Americans do not know is that the Southern border is dotted with mass murder sites where white supremacist militias (such as the Rangers) performed lynchings and mass executions of Mexicans and Indians. To this day, bleached skulls with bullet holes in the head can be found out there.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Remember when the FBI was like ‘maybe we should keep an eye on people who make threats at school board meetings?’ And “parents’ rights” folks started shrieking that actually making threats was a parental right

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

it always feels too blunt and disgusting to say this is why we don't have public housing but this is why we don't have public housing

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🕷️Spectre of Communism🕷️, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I cannot emphasize enough that if you have people in your organizing spaces openly judging people in interracial relationships or openly questioning interracial relationships, you gotta intervene immediately and make it clear that that kind of talk is completely unacceptable.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

keep saying this: the most ingrained modern ideology (in terms of the thing that people believe to be true and natural without ever thinking about it) is not capitalism, it's nationalism and nation-states

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

social media has enormously enriched my personal and intellectual life but i think it's a plague and a blight and if you use it too much you almost inevitably go insane

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/08/2026

I think Abundance tripped over the exact same problem Effective Altruism did: many of the people pushing it got immediately bored with what it actually entails and started talking up whatever gets them invited into Silicon Valley WhatsApp groups.

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