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One of the most salient divisions in American urban politics is between people who choose to live in cities because they actually like urban life and temporarily embarrassed suburbanites.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wait I just figured out the missing tone cue and I hate this but basically you're talking to a math/compsci PhD autistic savant who's also a littlemoder who took too much acid, is the vibe

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 5h

"bribes are only illegal if you call them bribes and make it super explicit that you're doing bribery and even then eh have you considered letting it slide" (McDonnell v. US) was a unanimous holding joined by Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer btw

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

my assumption is that someone who throws dishes across the room when they are angry might punch you and that there is not a clean line between behavior towards inanimate objects and behavior towards persons

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

The Dems need to viciously attack every power and money center for the conservative movement. Eliminate car dealership monopolies, enact wealth taxes on billionaires, eliminate citizens United, crack down on crypto, and bring silicon Valley to heel.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They're intentional, just not truth-apt in the way that the rest of ours are. He his calculus is just "what words do I need to say to get what I want?" And what he wants is usually a stupid person's idea of social dominance.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026

I'm not sure if she's aware of it but this 2022 @rebeccajtiffany.bsky.social tweet is basically an article of faith at @liberalcurrents.com ( @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com quoted it in www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit... and I've referenced it countless times ever since)

My YIMBY take: Every trans 18 year old who is stuck living w unsupportive family should be able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space w transit on a min wage job. (+raise the min wage). Build so much housing that that is the norm. Same for others stuck in bad situations

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think the synthesis is that there are plenty of economies with GDP/capita growth that are undesirable but there are very very very few economies with stagnation/regression that are desirable.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whatever weird shit might be happening at like the commanding heights of effective altruism (and it does look like there’s weird shit), I do think it’s worth reiterating that the vast majority of folks who prescribe to EA are overall really good people, & the vulgar form of the argument is very true

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something I didn't appreciate about the Maryland Renaissance Faire until today is that they've been running a 30+ year real time performance of the life and wives of Henry VIII. They started with 1509 and every year the Faire bumps up another year.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/10/2026

4 of these justices don’t believe birthright citizenship is constitutionally required! This is not an originalist court!

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's a fair chance this election is what polisci types point to when talking about the rise of the 7th Party System, and where APUSH students in 2060 learn that there was a time when the Sunbelt wasn't the Blue Wall.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For a very clear comparison, emulating Magyar would be removing all the MAGA justices and judges from Federal Courts in the first 100 days. That is the scale of democratic chemotherapy we are discussing.

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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 01/10/2026

turns out when you have a thorough american cultural dictionary, the phrase “i care about documentation, reliability, and user experience” compresses pretty well to “she”. i don’t have a pithy sentence for it but force femming the robot also backed off the sycophancy dial. make of this what you will

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Only the first and second rows of the periodic table are conscious, so stars are conscious but LLMs aren't. That's why stars only make the heavier elements when they die.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 01/10/2026

Please accept this perfect photo of Maxx who believes himself invisible as my contribution towards your mental health for the day. Also, take a break, drink some water, and double check that curtain isn’t see-thru.

Maxx hiding behind a sheer gold curtain.

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

It's attempting to restrict what a minority can do, not for valid reasons but instead based on assumptions that trans girls are relevantly different from cis girls. So yes.

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elynxabeth holmes ⎔ @freyja-lynx.dev · 01/10/2026

google inventing a crazy technique called “have your engineers actually talk to the model and use it”

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 30/09/2026

Solar keeps accelerating faster than expected and will solve a lot of our clean energy woes We are having a flurry of new medical breakthroughs that will revolutionize medicine It’s understandable to be scared right now, but a beautiful future is a lot more attainable than it feels

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Putting together a squad for the heist of a century. There's the hacker (Claude), the financier (Claude), the demolition expert (Claude), the inside man (Claude), the driver (Claude)

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

morphological freedom for cities

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026

if you want to be the party of government, you have to be the party of good government. this is another way of saying details matter. if you want to attack inequality, you need to make sure it *works.* and it turns out the design of tax systems matters quite a lot.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incorporating a Monty hall problem based minigame as core gameplay element and making the most technically correct, worst received turn based RPG in the history of Steam.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 19/09/2026

The first step to sane AI regulation is admitting the technology is real. The second step is to ignore anyone who talks about x risk.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the new haircut for Otti, a bit messy, but what do you think!

An illustration by Spindle of the character Ottilie, a woman with short brown hair standing in front of a mirror, checking out her new haircut that her gf, Asimov (sitting on a bed in the back) cut

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words @words.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

got a new tattoo

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

preemptive pardons are a really corrosive thing, we really shouldn't allow them

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But 2024 also made me much, much more comfortable with an authoritarian response to these people, so it might have broken me in different ways.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feels like Republicans are always tagged with "candidate quality issues" where these duds are compared to a hypothetical "normal" replacement candidate. But I think an honest look at the track record is that these candidates aren't below median: they simply are the new median

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

“this show is not for me”, “this show has an annoying fanbase”, “this show started some trends I dislike”, and “this show was actually bad” are all different opinions and people are too quick to conflate them

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I agree that California is a better place to live than Texas, especially if you're queer or an immigrant. That's exactly why it's a problem why California is so much worse at building housing!

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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over the course of the questions, it becomes apparent that I define left- and right-wing based on handedness.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i will take "the slopbeasts go back to not voting forever" as a close second, though

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 23/09/2026

my only reaction was that you have to be able to immediately differentiate between people being reasonable about reasonable complaints, people being unreasonable about reasonable complaints, and people who are using reasonable complaints as an excuse to be abusive

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We really need to do more to raise the salience about the partisan nature of jobs like “car dealer” and “chiropractor” the same way conservatives have done to teachers and scientists. Dem elites need to do more to signal to their base that small business tyrants are their enemies.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So strange how all the best places in California predate the existence of traffic engineering as a profession... what an odd coincidence...

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piaf. @patapiaf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t really feel creative right now but have a small mareep doodle #pokemon

Three Mareep sleeping on top of each other

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