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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People mostly know her as a Trump consort, but I will always remember her from being part of the prosecution in the California Nazi Sex Dog Manslaughter Case. She was shacking up with Newsome back then, small world.

San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan speaks to the press after the arraignment of Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel for the dog-mauling death of Diane Whipple on March 29, 2001. Assistant DAs Jim Hammer, center, and Kimberly Guilfoyle look on.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mass divorce wave of the 1970s was good, and probably saved a lot of lives.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026

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"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."

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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I disagree with the first part, how could described the Roman Republic as anything but a nation?

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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is an obvious bit. This sort of low-brow grifting aimed at pig-people; is why Hanania is loosely aligned with Liberalism these days inspite of his deep commitments to both pedophilia and eugenics. He genuinely finds this shit subhuman.

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Guofu 류강 대™🪨 @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Little Africa gets a lot of hype but it's at best 20-40k permanent residents with no option or ability to become citizens. In China you cant marry in to become a citizen either, & being ethnically Chinese means nothing as well. You simply either have to be an elite within an elite or be Taiwanese

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🇹🇷 Funny thing is that I saw a snippet of a post with some aghast person explaining that "for some reason, the people there are threatening HoI devs with death by wicked knives, WTF" and I closed my eyes and said "The Place Formerly Known as the Ottoman Empire"

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

while i am commenting on this: i have reached the end of my rope with this sort of thing and my current point of view is that the weird monks should not be allowed to disavow their satanist wing, and also that their satanist wing appears to mostly rule them and tell them what to do

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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is uncanny how this stuff is so similar to anti anti-Muslim or anti-Palestinian screeds.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think I could successfully first strike the creative arts cluster

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

atlas.jazco.dev

Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Ashitaka's story emphasizes the importance of having two girlfriends, one who is nice but evil and one who is mean but good, and you have to spend all of your time doing stuff for them

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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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The okayest poster there is @ok-post-guy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No, the only thing we're "done with" is giving a shit what underemployed Bush-era teenage Republicans say as they approach 40 and cast about for a personality

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2/ New research from our Johns Hopkins's Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab: The US is pulling back from climate & going all-in on AI. China is stepping in to build green factories overseas. The scale is staggering. Explore the cleantech manufacturing FDI database cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com

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Autumnal Astrid🍂 @namitomoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is why Iran, like the Soviets before them are doing (unwillingly) an immense service to humanity by tying down a rapacious Imperial power.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People seem to have a hard time conceiving of the daily lives and material conditions of the past, even those within living memory

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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Correct, but also cope. The Liberal part of the Big Tent simply doesn't have anyone like Bill Clinton and so finds itself perpetually befuddled.

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There are many other things about this that are bad but honestly “CENTCOM abolished” and “NATO no longer has a paramount leader” are both good outcomes

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

you do have to respect will stancil's utterly dogged determination to teach philosophy of mind 101 to bluesky

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I say this a lot but we got really lucky that our revolutionaries all were Weebs for Cincinnatus and Cicero and Seneca

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is something you cannot repeat enough: what makes America so much more unequal than European countries isn't the wealth held by billionaires (Europe has those too). It is the wealth held by the upper echelon of the professional classes. Lawyers, doctors, even some journalists...

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Kat @kat8655.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

It was as firm part of the oikumene as Cyprus which is a member state.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think we're going to eventually find out that Aella is Silicon Valley's Ghislaine Maxwell

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 15/09/2026

Diesel new highs, China crude making new record premiums vs Brent, backwardation accelerating, tanker rates exploding. All of this suggests the crude market is tightening rapidly because China has stopped relying on strategic draws. Much more impt than the US SPR if it sustains.

Chart of spread ($/bbl) between Chinese crude futures (medium-sour grade, delivered to China's coast) vs Brent

Chart of spread between front-month Brent and fourth-month Brent, with higher readings indicating a greater premium for barrels near-terms vs deferred barrels.

Spot freight rate for a Persian Gulf tanker to the US Gulf Coast since 1991

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 13/09/2026

The Houthi-aligned Bani Hashish tribes are massing in preparation to “liberate” the remaining Yemeni territory outside Houthi control. It’s a sea of Toyotas with mounted machine guns. I think this is what we should mean when we say Toyotathon from now on.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

why does this have the vibes of every american visiting China 😭

a YouTube video where the subtitle includes "our government is lying to us about Canada"

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My god they did it

substack.com

War is a Highway

Just Drive Straight You Idiots

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The women's revolution in Myanmar goes largely unremarked upon in the legacy media, but these young women struck a decisive blow against the junta yesterday. They have built a world in the mountains where they could be free in a way the state there would never have allowed them to be.

Two young women in woodland fatigues, one wears a set of PV goggles and the other is sitting next to her watching a screen.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10/09/2026

obviously there's a lot of nostalgia for the world that was. the mass labor party of the 20th century was *supposed* to win. instead it lost, and then faded away. "we should recreate that!" i am sorry but nostalgia is not a plan. we need to adapt our politics to our conditions.

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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Houthi are such an effective military force that calling them an Iranian proxy does not do them justice. They have sent both the Saudis and UAE reeling while brushing off the American air campaign.

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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New anti racist badge dropped ✊🏼 shop.rnli.org/products/rs2...

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Support the lifesavers (and add a bit of sparkle to your outfit!) with this RNLI flag pin badge.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Moreover, it should not be forgotten that a year before the crisis began in 2011, Syria itself was still hosting over 1 million refugees from the sectarian violence following the Iraq War. It was the domino chain as much as anything that was so dangerous.

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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026

A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.

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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The racist far right stops growing when we oppose them and show we are the majority. 🔁Pass it on. Be there this Saturday. Glasgow Green 12 noon.

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Joe Ickowski @joeick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Germany literally has an option for "turbo racism with socialist characteristics" and they are getting BTFOed by the vanilla turbo racists this is not the Volk Crying Out for Communism

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Bark @smorc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

just infinitely redoing the guy who got banned from /r/sino for being a chinese person living in china and showing people on reddit that homelessness exists lol

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you're from a rural part of China and you move to a city, you do not have the right to live in the city. You and your family have no access to the better social resources in the city, including unemployment benefits and schooling. Such is life for over 300 million people in China.

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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey, I got 4 or so in just one! (This is actually me most recent saved image).

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is why I'm doing this. This article describes Jews praying to God at the holiest site in Judaism as an act of violence. Calling it by its Arabic name instead of the Kotel or the Western Wall is a deliberate choice, as is claiming that everyone there is a settler.

Post by "True Agency - EN", @newsrealtime.bsky.social.

"More than 50,000 settlers stormed the plaza of the Buraq Wall in the west of Al-Aqsa Mosque last night and held Talmudic rituals known as 'Selichot.'"

The image along with the post shows the Kotel plaza filled with people at night.

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Ruo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

some context for Lebron's polymarket partnership

A pie chart titled "Exhibit 5: Gen Z and Millennials comprised 88% of online betting activity in July" showing the share of customers with online betting activity in July by generation. Gen Z makes up the largest slice at 48% (dark blue), followed by Millennials at 40% (red), Gen X at 9% (orange), and Baby Boomers at 3% (green).

The source is cited as Bank of America internal data.

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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It is much more parsimonious that Biden's commitment to supporting Israel, (notable even by the standards of his predecessors). Caused the breach with the Left which was broadly approving of his domestic policy.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

In the late 1700s, Siam fought many wars along its border with Malaya These saw it bring 10s of 1000s of Malay Muslim war captives to Bangkok Many were put to work building the Saen Saep canal east of the city Their descendants are still there, with at least 130 mosques along the Saen Saep today

A painting of Siamese forces taking the famous Phaya Tani cannon from Pattani back to Bangkok on a ship in 1786 after Siam successfully reconquered the sultanate

A map of Thailand's southern provinces of Satun, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Malaysia's northern states of Perlis, Kedah, Perak, Kelantan, and Penang

A map of Bangkok with the route of the Saen Saep Canal highlighted running east to Prachinburi

A map of Bangkok showing well over a hundred Malaysia flags representing mosques founded by Thai Muslims of Malay descent spreading out around the route of the Saen Saep

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Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹 @oosaemitter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There are few things that I loathe as much as the libertarian infiltration of Progressivism.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The left is going to have to start by admitting that the Laffer curve is real.

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