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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3h

The response I usually get is "a cop would never do that" So I'd send a link Which would get "that's just one bad apple" At which point I'd send like 5-6 links Which then led to "I'm not reading all that" bsky.app/profile/j-mi...

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3h

The wild part about stories like this -- which happen repeatedly, every year, all over the US -- is the angry pushback I get from "comply or die!" Rs when I ask them what they'll do when a cop demands a blow job

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9h

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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

Hegseth is aspirational for some white people. He's proof that mediocrity is rewarded if you are a white man. You can always fail up. That's his appeal and make no mistake, the appeal is real.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 3h

anyone remember that time Blücher got so drunk and depressed he thought he was pregnant with an elephant? and the whole Prussian army was still like "yeah he's still the guy we need to beat napoleon" (they were right)

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3h

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Korika @korikaanders.bsky.social · 3h

who is following through on this guide? who is goin "My job is incredible but the one thing that would make it better is seeing the Evony ad ladies"

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 3h

Skipped the Nazis, huh.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 3h

My energy supplier is constantly like "why won't you set up a direct debit with us" and like, you sent me an estimated bill saying I owed almost £200, and I took meter readings to prove I didn't, and you didn't believe me and sent a guy to do a reading, and what do you know, my actual bill is £35.27

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

Well, I'm 20 years late to the party on this one but this is why it pays to hangout with the Earth Sciences people when you're near their building. TL;DR - Geology is complicated. It's good to ask geologists before you dig deep holes or you will learn SURPRISE GEOLOGY.

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Staufen im Breisgau - Wikipedia

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 3h

Although my favourite is always when someone plays around with a formula cleverly. Like I laughed *so* hard when I first realised that this was a twelve-bar blues in the verses and even starts "woke up this morning".

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HERMANS HERMITS - I'M INTO SOMETHING GOOD

YouTube video by thegoldenhits

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 3h

was just having a conversation about this. it's true. of all the trump admin crimes since 1/2025, these killings are among the clearest cut, with the most law/jurisprudence to support prosecution of a whole range of ppl involved, from leadership to subordinates.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7h

Several people are mad about this so I will briefly clarify! No, I’m not saying a novel is comparable to a real-life assault in any way. No, I’m not saying the author is bad or responsible for bad things. I am saying I’ve seen real bad stuff come from “consensual” student-faculty relationships.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 8h

NEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dear Mr. Cayce:
I write to notify the panel of two legal developments material to the
panel’s resolution of this case.
First, today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—filed a
lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against nearly three dozen
individuals and entities responsible for remotely dispensing FDA-
approved mifepristone in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. See
Louisiana v. Nouhavandi, No. 2:26-cv-03836 (W.D. La.) (attached). As
the complaint in that case illustrates, none of those individuals and
entities could carry out their current operations without the 2023
REMS’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement.
Second, also today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—
filed a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint (attached), Louisiana v.
New York, in the United States Supreme Court against New York,
Massachusetts, and California. The bill of complaint challenges the
telehealth shield laws of those states on various legal grounds.
Both complaints explain how Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v.
FDA will eliminate the flood of FDA-approved mifepristone into the
State. Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. Nouhavandi will eliminate the
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ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send
any abortion drugs into the State. And Louisiana’s success in Louisiana
v. New York will strip all shield-law state residents—regardless of any
back-up drugs they may try to use—of the claimed authority to violate
Louisiana’s laws with impunity.
espectfully,
/s/J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
Solicitor General
Counsel for Louisiana

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 7h

Who has a bigger heart than me? I find myself with zero sympathy for people in recent stories saying, "Yeah, I was fine with all the mass roundups, until they arrested my brother[uncle/neighbor/wife]." Who has a case for a more charitable outlook?

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 8h

I just didn't read it properly tbqh. If you put unqualified lunatics in charge of the department of health, and FDA this will be the result

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 7h

The master N. C. Wyeth’s cover painting for Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1915 novel “The Return of Tarzan”.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 9h

So glad that this quote can be added to my forthcoming article on AI and Epistemic Dispossession because I had to say that they will absolutely be using AI to erase science and history but I didn’t yet have the ‘he admit it’ smoking gun

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

The other day, Andrew Bailey, who stepped down as MO AG in hopes of becoming FBI Director, stepped down. REMARKABLY, one report said he routinely told Kash he was violating the Constitution. Today, DOJ did something profoundly corrupt in hopes of politicizing 8th C, which covers MO, MN, and IA.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 12h

It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 23h

To put this in perspective, one hour of wages at the federal minimum buys you about one pound of ground beef. One hour of wages at the Seattle minimum buys you about *three* pounds. Same ratio for a gallon of diesel.

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 10h

13 hospitals in rural Virginia may soon be unable to deliver a baby. Some will keep an ER. That's not the same thing. "No labor and delivery services. No cardiac care." — state Sen. Barbara Favola The cause: Medicaid cuts in the budget law Trump signed.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h

The idea Yud "has no emotional need to feel special". Dude is terrified he's like everyone else (i.e. mortal) and desperately needs the world to think he is "The One Guy Who Can Save Us". If no one thinks he's special they won't make him think his fantasy of living forever will save him.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 10h

Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h

They think they can get reactors online in ~2 years? Under what legal authority?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · 10h

Meredith Willson really went off when he wrote this melody line.

Screenshot of vocal score excerpt of The Music Man of the line "We can be cold as a falling thermometer in December"

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h

This is how you answer that sort of question. As asked, no extras, no quibbles. Takes the wind right out of their sails (and gives them nothing to work with).

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 11h

One of the many weird things about this admin is their rejection/total lack of awareness of existing nationalist symbolism and American civil religion. Honestly it’s probably a big part of why they’re failing to consolidate power so we lucked out

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 11h

I can actually see both (though one is more persistent for me, and I think that one to be the actual one, based on the shading)

Picture of an animal with the question

Goat?

Or Bird?

Depending on where you locate the eye, relative to the rest of the image, it is possible to see either a bird, or a baby goat.

I believe the illusion is a paradoelic seeing of the goat, based on how the shadows lie.

I don't think it's actually a baby goat twisting it's head around.

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 11h

even if they *are* the worst of the worst, you've already caught them. they are in a cage. they are asking the court if they can please stay in the cage instead of getting airdropped into a worse prison in a country where a dictator winked while promising not to abuse him in exchange for cash.

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 12h

this is so boring but it is incredibly frustrating to see the supreme court be so malevolently silly about third-country removal. there is no balancing of equities that could possibly favor the government, which already HAS THE DETAINEE IN JAIL. are they ordering too much room service?

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 12h

"Does the blossom refute the bud?"

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12h

I may be going to Sheffield for a day soon - any restaurant recommendations?

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 12h

Susan Collins says she’s the oh so powerful chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee but she hasn’t done anything to stop this corruption. Instead she’s voting with Trump 96% of the time after Trump stopped a corruption probe into her getting a contract for a crooked donor. #mepolitics

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Stansaid Airport @stansaidairport.bsky.social · 15h

A very successful morning training the new Baggage Handlers.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 12h

Observation: The illustrations in early type-font design patents look a lot like the illustrations you would see in 19th-century type-foundry specimen books.

D15,749, issued in 1885 for a design for "type"

screenshot from the 1848 Bruce specimen book

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 12h

We're 5 new members away from me reading and reacting to this terrible propaganda romance about a liberal woman who falls in love with “a big-hearted, truck-driving guy who follows hockey, not headlines"! Subscribe to torture me for a good cause: rebeleverafter.binderybooks.com

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t say I like all the folks using handwriting as a marker for intelligence. They would all look at mine and start explaining that it shows me to be ignorant, stupid, and (apparently) anti-social.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 14h

Make America's Military Dumb Again

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David Gould @drdavidgould.bsky.social · 15h

My book on historic rabbit warrens in England is published on 13th Nov by Liverpool Uni Press and I'm pleased to have received my advance copies. The perfect Xmas gift for any rabbit warren-obsessed nerd, of which there are no doubt many such people. #landscapearchaeology #rabbits #medievalsky

Me in a dapper shirt pointing at the cover of my soon to be published book.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14h

What we're for A future we can afford. Air and water you can trust. A say in what gets built next door.

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To bottom line this for you, the Supreme Court has allowed Trump to deport people without giving them a hearing, and said "we will consider next year whether this violated the laws against torture". They think it's worse to make Trump wait than risk him torturing people.

nytimes.com

Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration’s Third-Country Deportations, for Now

The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.

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nanzhounoodles.bsky.social @nanzhounoodles.bsky.social · 22h

YOU hate Nader for throwing the 2000 election. I hate Nader for ushering in the era of Consumer as a primary political identity, touting the tort system as an alternative to normal democratic deliberation, and making things generally work worse in the USA.

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 14h

Which is what I did. The sexualized harassment and assault of children, regardless of gender, is the bedrock foundation of rape culture. Both the unremarkability of how it happens to children perceived as girls ("happens all the time") and its unspeakability when it happens to kids seen as boys.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 22h

And require that he show Willis was there, and met with him: and that it was collusionary. Heavy lifts, even if he hadn’t been 700 miles away.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 23h

The cost per is $30-50. So not trivial, but at 3-12 months per it’s not unreasonable: as a means of providing myself positive reinforcement.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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