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I did not know that the San Juan Metro Area is larger than the largest metro area in several states.

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there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22h

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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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 21h

Nah man if Ossof's response on the Laken Riley Act vote is anything other than "i regret it for the rest of my life and am dedicating my career to undoing that harm and ensuring ICE is crushed" then he's out for 2028, full stop.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 21h

this is maybe just so obvious as to be cliche, but re the antisemitism surrounding Zohran lately: pluralism requires simultaneously (1) refusing to unreasonably advance the interests of your own in-group at the expense of others; and (2) simultaneously demanding that others not harm your in-group

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 22h

I understand Japanese well enough that the subtitle timing didn't bother me too much, but I still might go see it again because it was so good.

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

IT'S FUCKING TOUHOU TIME BABY!!!!!!

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finally finished (?) The Blue Prince. 65 hours. Great game. I played about 2/3 without any help, and then gave up and got hints from the wiki for a while, and then for the last little bit just looked at the answers (the history stuff was crazy hard). I was INCREDIBLY invested by the end, and

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 30/09/2026

I know it would be an unpopular proposal, but we should just ban frats, tbh

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@nomorefreewayspdx.com a friend of mine had an intriguing policy proposal that I think is worth investigating

Fischer, is it feasible to lower the drinking age in Oregon to 18 in order to cut off highway development

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StrawHatPyro @strawhatpyro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Double teto for Teto Tuesday

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everything about this is so good and then the combination of the last two faces is just.... Perfect.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m da communist poster who pays Elon musk for x verification. I’m building communism by paying Elon musk to post on his Nazi website that produces AI generated CSAM.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ok this is funny

The Meaning of “Death to America”
In light of what has been said, it should be fairly obvious that the phrase “Death to America,”
which Iranians have been chanting since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, does not in any
way express any ill will toward the American people, who have themselves suffered from the same
oppression. “Death to America” is a prayer for the eradication of the diabolical ruling elite whose
seat of power is the White House. It is a cry born of the pain of oppression. Do the oppressed not
have the right to wish death upon the evil oppressors responsible for killing their brothers, sisters,

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh my god The AnkiDroid new screen is soooooo much better why did I not switch sooner

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump take Japanese Doujin imports :(

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking about this old quote in the context of certain people - professors, nyt contributors, etc - who see casual misgendering as a reasonable response to a lack of respect for their claimed epistemic authority

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 29/09/2026

Cancel me for this but I think that politicians should pursue policies that improve the material circumstances of their constituents.

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking about all the people who are nodding along to "it's important for men to call out sexism with their friends" who also say it's okay for artists and journalists and such to still be on Twitter. I'm sure there are a few.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Aiobahn ft Demon Dice" FUCKING WHYYYYYYY. WHY DO YOU KEEP WASTING YOUR TALENT ON THIS TRASH????

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90for90.bsky.social @90for90.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨”Why would I want to abolish prisons, when I want Ashley Moody to be arrested & locked up in one.”

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If the anime title translation is good, use that. If the anime title translation is bad, use the original.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've always figured something like this is the optimal solution but didn't know how to work out specifics, and of course Chris Kluwe has a killer proposal that covers everything. This is a solution that would actually work.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i hope people are ready for the pivot from immigration to domestic racial segregation among "polite" right wing spaces in coming years i give it til 2028 before the conversation goes from "heritage American" to "cultural homogeneity" to "i'm Just Asking Questions about interracial marriage"

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

at least we made it to friday

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Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one of the rats (who i actually met a few times) writes up a slutcon defense post and puts in this gem about women needing to process their karma (read:baggage) about rape these people are just... unbelievable amounts of fucked up

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

in case anyone was wondering what happens if ants realize there’s sugar water in those waterpik flosser machines, the answer is that you shoot ants into your mouth WITH the water and don’t realize it until you spit them out into the sink

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OUTTA 🔞 - No comm @outtaoutta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Chibi Curly Brace on a mission~

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026

getting arrested for public exposure every time i have to unlock the front door of my apartment building

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This should be anyone's go to. "I don't support abolishing the police because we need someone to arrest the Trump administration for their crimes"

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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“We want to destroy patronage networks” “Ban university-endorsed Greek life” “We also want to reduce sexual assault” “You’re gonna love hearing our answer again”

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

pro tip: doing this makes you seem like a heterodox freethinking sigma and your bros will appoint you pack leader

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All men should live in fear that someone will see them decline to do this, and will judge them forever. That's how I think about it. It's your obligation.

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