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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 01/10/2026

True psychopathy is rare! Basic math means that most war crimes and monstrosities are carried about people who are not psychopaths, which is why there is so much propaganda dehumanizing and othering the target group (have to blunt the empathic impulse)

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

babe please stop offloading your cognitive processes to GIF replies all your friends are worried about you

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Dan @pretendan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tragically, this was not to be the kind of content we would get on Bluesky.

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The US and the EU rejected a declaration by member countries of the UN that pledged international collaboration and solidarity in preparing for and responding to pandemics. Yes, you read that right. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...

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U.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics (Gift Article)

Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It was clear from the beginning that the situation on the USS Lincoln needed to be taken seriously. Instead of being honest about it and supporting our servicemembers, Trump and Hegseth denied and minimized what was happening. Failed leadership.

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

[type ag into google] On my computer: agE OF EMPIRES II On Richad Hanania's: agE OF CONSENT BY STATE

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We need to stop calling this "deporting" and start calling it "marooning", because that's what this is. Tossing ppl into the middle of nowhere to die.

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Eerily Jen ("what, like it's Halloween?") 🩵🩷👻🩷🩵 @transducer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

new 🧵, bc I want to talk to those who feel like I felt in 2023, 2020, 2018… 1997. I want to help you understand something I wish I’d really understood: It does NOT have to be an all-or-nothing binary switch. People may see it as “you were 🚹, now you 🚺.” You don’t have to experience it that way.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

wait what they are using is evidence of fraud is the fact that they have been paying for a service which they do not use?

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/09/2026

That 2025 stint when every institution scrambled to bow before the eternally beloved god emperor's million-year reich was weird at the time and only looks weirder and weirder in hindsight. Way way way weirder than any of the alleged excesses of Woke 1

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not to be all "My Wife" but my wife works in this field on the government side, and every time somebody says that the kids are being taken away for no reason or for some politically charged reason I really challenge you to stop and think about whether that's the whole story

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tbh the modal intervention is with a family that actually doesn't seem to give a shit at all but just doesn't want the kid taken *away* because that *belongs to them*. But they don't "want" the child. They just don't want someone else to have them.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What’s really peculiar about the “rapture” theology is that it’s based on a really convoluted and selective reading of scripture, dates back no further than the 19th C, is rejected by the Orthodox, Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed, and is basically contradicted by the Apostle’s Creed. But…

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

you can learn a lot about America by remembering that this man lived through the coronavirus

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

there are not enough federal goons to hold a single american city of a million people

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump was riding a sugar high after the Maduro raid and wanted to do "Venezuela" in Iran. If you believe the Iran War was launched because of US national security, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

I do not think that AI will collapse but I do think Oracle might and it’s an outcome we should all be rooting for mightily

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it is hard to figure out how to convey this fact in words but there is so much rationalist pro-rape propaganda that it is nearly impossible to figure out which pro-rape propaganda to talk about without it sidetracking me forever i maybe should have included this

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

Why talk about how nuts the AI rationalist sex cult is, and not just focus on the (very real) risks and harms of AI? Well, when we're discussing "who should get to regulate AI, and how," I think it's VERY relevant to talk about the antisocial, unsettling ways many people running US AI think.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This story also doesn’t state how far up the food chain this got before someone called “bullshit” but evidently got pretty far if we were preparing to seize said ship

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it isn't that there's no baby in that bathwater. there's a baby in that bathwater. it's just that it's a combination of baby, bathwater, and scorpions.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.

John Kenneth Galbraith:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is bad and should be called out. I push back against accusing everyone that breathes for wanting to throw us under the bus, so it is credible when we call it out when it unambiguously occurs. This is an unambiguous occurrence.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Obviously transphobia is real and sucks. I’m not denying that, so put down your pitchforks. But I worry the apocalyptic panic we indulge in here scares off the eggs and kids and so forth. We want to make it easier, not harder to be trans.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It feels suboptimal that the president doesn’t understand even the most basic concepts of how money works

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 14/09/2026

one of the most important reasons why this is bunk, which basically nobody is talking about, is how the reasons for British transphobia are *completely unaligned* with the reasons people are transphobic in Texas nobody in Texas supports "women's spaces" or whatever! not sincerely!

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm constantly being asked why we should vote for center-left douchebags over out-and-out fascists since it didn't work in the UK. To me that's like saying "firefighters failed to save a building the next town over, so we shouldn't have firefighters here."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

everyone involved with alligator alcatraz at every level - its creation, its construction, its staffing - needs to go to jail

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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A movie where Mitch McConnell has to go to the hospital after a fall but has so much fun on his day off, he decides to see how long he can go without returning. He sneaks on a plane to go with his wife to China, gets really into gardening tomatoes, and tries windsurfing for the first time

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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When the day comes to return, he has to make a choice: Will he go back to his soul-crushing job in DC or will he keep on making excuses? The final scene is him picking up a trowel and a sun hat, his flag pin shining on the window sill, never to be worn again. We call it The Last Filibuster

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/09/2026

Abortion bans are killing women.

Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

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Dan @pretendan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yep, there are a lot of impulses I see on here that are very obviously influenced by conservative upbringings.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13/09/2026

They should separate the PvP and RP servers in this site

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The thing that's really bothering me about all this is that Talarico has a genuinely impressive track record on trans rights! The impulse that treats "very good, but not quite perfect" as though it were abject evil is such a poison

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 12/09/2026

The Becerra misrepresentation wasn’t an anomaly. A check of all 27 Democrats on Erin Reed’s list reveals a pattern: fabricated citations, truncated quotes, erased pro-trans votes, and reckless advice. The guide: www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guid… 🧵👇

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love you all (well, most of you), and I’m sure I’ll probably get more blocks for this, but I’ve got to say this: In order to win, he needs to communicate with voters who are not aligned with the BlueSky consensus. At the very least, he must convince some people who hate Dems they can stay home.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In politics, your campaign is a story you are telling. Paxton’s story is that the effete, feminine, woke Democrats are coming to cut off your children’s genitals. Talarico’s story is that the corrupt Paxton and GOP care only about their own wealth and power. Which story are you helping to tell?

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This was the same interview, with a Fox reporter, who asked exclusively questions like this over and over. Paxton is running on this issue, specifically. He talks about it constantly. If Talarico loses, the lesson will be that Paxton was correct to do so. You decide what to do about that.

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