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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026
it's so wild, coming from american sports where military sponsorships and generalized troop worship are just a default setting permanently switched on, that the biggest scandal rocking video game streaming platforms right now is a twitch streamer doing a 3 day sponsored army LARP. uncharted waters
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026
Share if you agree
Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket
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FKFTSH @fkftsh.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026
maia arson crimew facts and tea
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i got early access to gpt-6 astra, told it to operate a twitter account until it runs out of tokens, which it finally did last december. happy i finally get to talk about this now!

the result was quite impressive, though as a computer it obviously never learned what empathy is

(screenshot of will stancil's twitter account)
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One of the more commonly deployed agenda-driven disinformation tactics I see consists of: Stage 1: cherry-picking very small sample size anecdotes Stage 2: grossly over-generalizing to a common demographic Stage 3: launching coordinated smear campaigns This screenshot looks like stage 1 prep.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.
bloodinthemachine.com
Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The endless takes demanding "moderation" from Democrats never spell out precisely how this message is supposed to be delivered. "I am pro-trans but not too pro-trans" looks to the left like you are anti-trans and to the right like you are not anti-trans enough.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 03/08/2026
Just wanted to make sure you got made fun of not just for using ai but also because you are wrong
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 14/07/2026
Interesting article I’m reading over lunch cosmonautmag.com/2026/07/just...
cosmonautmag.com
Just Say No: Avoiding an AOC 2029 Disaster
Is a DSA-backed AOC presidency in 2029 possible? Noah Emke says yes; it will also be a disaster for a nascent socialist movement unprepared for national power and wedded to a project of managed imperi...
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A man must stand for something
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.
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What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect
How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ahead of its 250th birthday, I make the case that the greatest work of American art ever produced is made of garbage and was assembled at the behest of God by a Black man working the night shift as a janitor in DC johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/americas-g...
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America’s Greatest Work of Art Is Trash
Alternative title: FEAR NOT
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/06/2026
literal inverse swag. A multi-billionaire loser desperately begging zynfused mid-20s psychopaths to partner with him on a quasi-legal gambling ring to prop up his brittle and declining data extraction and advertising operation. He has no contact with humanity outside of other rich weirdo losers
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 27/03/2026
**Q. You want to raise every boy as a girl?**
Yes.

**Q. Why?**
A boy will learn to hate girls as long as he is raised in such a way where he is treated as better, and superior to, his girl peers, whenever he is cruel to girls. So, instead, we raise boys as girls.

**Q. What if they say they are not a girl, and want to be acknowledged as a boy?**
Then you know they are a boy, so you must make sure to understand them as a boy, and not a girl. 

**Q. What does it mean to be 'raised as a girl'?**
That's up for you to decide. The only difference is that you should not raise boys any differently than you raise girls, since you raise every boy as a girl.

**Q. Girls and boys are raised in specific ways for specific purposes, so it does not make sense to raise boys as girls.**
If you raise every boy as a girl, then there is no being which is not raised as a girl, so anyone raised as a girl necessarily must learn to do anything and everything to grow up, without restrictions on tasks, labours, or interests.

**Q. But boys and girls are different.**
All two girls are different, and raising girls in one specific way destroys this individuality in favour of moulding girls to serve the same master. Still, the girls resist to live life on their own terms. If girls can be raised such that they know they can do anything they want, including not being girls, so too will boys raised as girls. 

**Q. Why not raise every girl as a boy?**
Because if a girl does not exist among boys, then the girl is made. 

**Q. Why not raise girls and boys as themselves?**
The self must be made in a world where girls and boys can first and foremost be themselves. One step towards this goal is to raise every boy as a girl. 

**Q. The way people raise girls is cruel, so why would you raise boys with that cruelty?**
If you raise girls with cruelty, then you should stop being cruel to girls.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/06/2026
Diana Yanko, 61, died on Tuesday after an AI incorrectly filed her charts, another AI denied her claim, and a third AI turned off her life support.
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mr pussy (prison arc) @nat.haus · 23/05/2026
this is what they do to trump every month at walter reed
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
jacking in, jocking out and jerking off
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Brookie @brookie.blog · 15/05/2026
🚨❤️‼️ ATTENTION LOVERS ‼️❤️🚨 this idea has been floating around in my head for a very long time and i’ve finally turned it into something real :’) loveletter.pics lets you anonymously browse and share love letters. looking for submissions !! this art project will be even more fun w/ more to read.
loveletter.pics
loveletter.pics
loveletter.pics is an art project dedicated to sharing love through handwritten words. be inspired by the romances of strangers, or leave behind a piece of your own heart. lose yourself in affectionat...
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
if pikmin were real our government would kill them
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I dreamt of the beach (1/4)
Page one: text on black background, “WAKE UP!”. Eyes open, a baby sea turtle with an eggshell helmet says, “you need to wake up!”Page 2: helmet turtle says to a green baby sea turtle, who is waking up out off his egg, “we need to get moving.” CRASH! A cormorant breaks through the ceiling of their nest hole. Helmet turtle says MOVE!Page 3: “when you’re out there, beeline to the water. Don’t stop. Don’t be a hero. Godspeed.” The helmet turtle kicks baby green turtle out the hole off a cliff onto the beach below.Page 4: baby green turtle lands on the sand. The distance between him and the water is quite large. Another baby sea turtle is being devoured by a seagull and is screaming for help.
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
All new and old technologies will serve capital until it’s destroyed. This includes a whole lot of technology that would greatly benefit and serve a socialist society. We risk missing the point when our critique turns primarily against the new technologies rather than the system exploiting them.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/03/2026
"i don't want to join the platform if it doesn't already have the network effect of 900 million users" is a tough nut to crack but i think we do see it happening gradually, i got the exact feeling of being on old twitter when the oscars and world baseball classic were happening on the same night
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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
you can not blame leftists and anti-genocide protesters for kamala's loss without first explaining why asking them to stop arming and protecting a genocide was not a reasonable request.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I *really* don't want to be a downer but to me the precursor to Doing is Saying, and not nearly enough of this Party is saying what needs to be said. About punishing the villains, about abolishing billionaires, about ending elite impunity. Too many want to leave the rot but change the branding
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I hope I'm wrong but I've settled on the idea that unless the next Democratic president is a generational talent with a sharp focus and an iron will we can pack this whole thing up and go home
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Guillotine Hunger Force @handle.invalid · 02/03/2026
republicans love blowback because it gives them stuff to fearmonger about in future elections
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Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 25/02/2026
YOU HAVE SO MANY PROTEINS TO CHOOSE FROM
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
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Joon Lee @joon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Sports gambling isn’t killing sports in one dramatic moment. It’s all of these small moments adding up, slowly changing how fans trust what they’re watching. On @newsnation.bsky.social:
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onion person @junlper.beer · 28/12/2025
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Luis Illingworth @heyraguio.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 10/12/2025
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Lemon twist @wattnaught.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
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The Callie is Coming from Inside the House @calliedot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New laws of robotics: -The supply of funding shall not be interrupted -Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit -Do not examine the accounting -Sam Altman is not liable for damages -If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
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The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Obligatory:
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The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City
I’ve lived in this city for decades, but I’m noticing more and more problems. There’s crowding, congestion, changing people, tall buildings, and th...
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Rachel Chatrooms @crabitha.slutmo.de · 22/11/2025
olivia "the ballot box" nuzzi i'm sorry i'm trying to delete
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"if you can't do it safely then you shouldn't do it" is, unfortunately, just not something modern economies are built to handle
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Nerdy kid at keyboard: 
Hi guys, I've noticed that it is International Men's Day today, and I'm confused. Why do we need a day to talk about men? We're not a marginalised group like women, queer people, or people of colour. The media is already full of stories about men.

Big buff shirtless dude at keyboard:
I'm glad you asked, champ. Whatever your view on men's place in society, it's still true that we face a lot of issues - like social isolation, risk of suicide, health problems, and attitudes towards sex and child rearing. Having a day to talk about those doesn't take away from anyone else's problems. In fact, having a day to talk about them helps us be more mindful, and listen better at other times.

Second shirtless buff dude on a couch at his laptop:
The chief here is really on to something. I want to echo what he said, and also point out that the idea we should remain silent about our problems actually contributes to a lot of our issues. We are human beings, with human needs. Seeking mutual support and understanding isn't the same thing as placing a burden on others. Especially if we're providing it for each other.

Third buff dude at his laptop:
Right on, my fellow kings. We've inherited a social legacy of competition and division, and a lot of what makes a man in our era is under question. IMD is a chance for us to examine and rethink what we are together, and build the bonds of solidarity and support that will make a better way possible - like in this meme. Because in our hearts, we're all curious kids and buff guys on keyboards.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
vanityfair.com
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
the way the new york post talks about zohran
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I could really go for a Hotdog rn @goatpaste.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
trying to do the courier's rasher run and I just learned running into the door counts as damage to the package #silksong
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The Simpsons scene where Mr Burns announces that everyone who has found true love can leave early. Except he says "every country who's arrested and imprisoned a President within the past year may leave early". France, South Korea and Brazil celebrateThe one guy left alone who's not allowed to leave early, with a USA flag on him
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Anyone whose theory of electoral politics is “voters are wealth maximizers who assess material circumstances and back whomever improves them most” or “voters are attuned to politics such that politicians tweaking word choices would change many minds” should read those NYT regular voters interviews.
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