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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It now also (like all DF games) supports an independent Double Fine!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m really getting tired of the phrase “disillusioned young x” being conflated with “deluded young x”

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You know who has mental toll from AI? The people in the global south paid pennies to label photos, the people paid a pittance to label graphic images, the people scrambling for contract gigs to train AI to do their jobs because it’s already killed most work in their field.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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pat-1976.bsky.social @pat-1976.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nothing has made me hope harder that hell is real than the coterie of villains who are gleefully trying to bring back measles and polio.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reminder that the Children's Hospital of Philly is also the one whose leadership sought to meet with their senator, John Fetterman, about "vaccines and Medicaid cuts" last September, and he was less than enthusiastic, per WSJ

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Last September, when an aide told Fetterman that officials with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP, wanted to meet because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, he was dismissive.
[followed by snippets of a text conversation between Fetterman and an aide]
FETTERMAN: Why do I have to keep meeting with chop
AIDE: Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.
FETTERMAN: Well I'm not... I'm convinced they just want free trips to DC

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.

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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A state for all the Jews* *conditions may apply, offer not valid for those who dare to criticize Likud

Israeli minister vows to revoke citizenship of filmmakers behind Gaza documentary: Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar said on Sunday that he would move “immediately” to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their documentary “NAZA,” about “Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Zohar called the film “vile” and accused the pair of “treason against the state” in a post on X.

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John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Days since USS Abraham Lincoln deployed: 292 Iran war began: 193 USS George HW Bush deployed: 162 the U.S. Army had a Senate-confirmed CoS: 160 the U.S. Navy had a Senate-confirmed Sec.: 140 USS George HW Bush entered Fifth Fleet: 139 SecDef briefed reporters on the war: 127

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026

sure does seem that way. it’s fun living in a wildly corrupt kleptocracy (but I repeat myself), isn’t it?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

this was the exact outcome that the "the economy under Biden (when unemployment was 3% and wages for lower-income workers were increasing rapidly) sucks" push was meant to engineer and it worked.

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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time.

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pat-1976.bsky.social @pat-1976.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've never encountered an environment more obsessed with everyone staying hydrated than boot camp. They better throw the book at this sadist "drill instructor".

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Of course, if you’re a homophobic or transphobic business owner, you can have standing to sue even if no LGBTQ customer has ever tried to order a cake or wedding photographs from you.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 31/08/2026

🚨 DO NOT BUY TITANIUM COURT! 🚨 ...Because it will be on sale for 50% off imminently! 💰⏰ Heed our call and cease any attempt to buy the game (for now!) We're only trying to look out for you 💙

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Mike @85mf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

measles vaccine bad, gas station crank good: the official health policy of your united states

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Replacing human opinion writers with AI will result in predictable pieces that say the same thing over and over. by David Brooks

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“We’ll grow our way out of it.” 🇺🇸

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026

The principal guiding light of this administration is that every single societal advance in the last 60 years that has made life more livable was a mistake.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

THIS IS WHAT THE OLIGARCHS ACTUALLY BELIEVE — cruelty and poverty for everyone who isn't them so them can compel us to labor for them, worship them and fuck them.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

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Desperado D. Mayor @desperado.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Why the fuck is Dave Meltzer pushing back against the Trump administration's lies more than the mainstream news media

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The older I get the more infuriating I find it that US voters and the media still default to the idea that Republicans are good on foreign policy and the economy. Since my 1965 birth they have been positively (and quantifiably) disastrous at both. Yet even people much younger than me don't get this.

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Razorblade Apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

All of this shit with destroying books makes me feel insane because I worked at an Internet Archive scanning center and none of the books need any damage but of course there's some worse way to do this for cheaper

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Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The utter gall, the BRAZEN FUCKING CONFIDENCE, of making the logo for your book-destroying IP-stealing a dinosaur tearing up a book convinces me more than anything that society's never getting out of this mess without throwing hands at specific targets.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 08/08/2026

It is sobering to contemplate that in fewer than five years, the directives of about half a dozen very wealthy men have effectively ruined the most effective research tools ever devised by human civilization.

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pat-1976.bsky.social @pat-1976.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A live-action re-imagining of ExoSquad. A slave rebellion by bioengineered Mars colonists backfooting Earth's government and military is such fertile ground for storytelling. youtu.be/rR7ktkOEeFw

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Exosquad Opening

YouTube video by hyttx

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

American military hegemony burning itself to the grown under a despotic manchild and none of the very serious national security people can seem to work up the same white hot anger about it they showed when Biden made them finally admit to their 20 year fuckup in Afghanistan.

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pat-1976.bsky.social @pat-1976.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Maybe this was true before the Facebook / Google advertising duopoly was established, and maybe it will be true again if they were broken up, but it ain't remotely true now.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 09/08/2026

Trump 2.0 has blown up US scientific research in a way that will take decades to roll back. Labs that took years to build have closed, young people have left science. NYT Mag published a long report on Dismantling Cancer Research. Why does Ross Douthat lie like this?

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

That’s it and that’s all, and journalists who do this are willing accomplices.

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

There are more people who've parlayed middling athletic prospects into profitable careers decrying the inclusion of trans women in sports than there are trans women in sports.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Being mortal creatures with limited time and energy, it is totally natural that human outrage is selective. If you tried to do work on every injustice and horror on this earth, you would collapse into an exhausted ball of trauma it is absolutely fine for you to select a cause that is yours

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This guys work history is FTX (collapsed), OpenAI (fired for leaking), and now this

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/07/2026

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

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Britain can't stop
climate change. Scrap
net zero and embrace
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oh, my God. Nicest guy. Was on the Pogues bill at Carnegie with him. His love of music was palpable, infectious, radiant. I’ve seldom seen a musician as connected to the moment of the song as he was that night, in deep communion with the song & the people playing it. So many felt it. Hard loss.

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