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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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profejohncosby.bsky.social @profejohncosby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I was gifted a copy of “A Quiet Year” and played a couple of times with my gaming group. It’s a delightful game, and in addition to creating some delightful locales with deep backstory, we came across some surprisingly common concerns in our group. Go buy it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Incredible stuff from Cards Against Humanity, who is now building a monument to interfere with SpaceX.

Why do you keep calling Elon Musk “a sad little bitch with no friends”?

Great question! (1) He is sad, (2) he is a bitch, and (3) he has no friends.

Did Elon Musk spend his 47th birthday alone, with no friends?

Yes.

Did Elon Musk beg Jeffrey Epstein for an invitation to his island, but get rejected?

Yes.

You’re saying that even the world’s most infamous pedophile didn’t want to be Elon Musk’s friend?

Yes.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

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profejohncosby.bsky.social @profejohncosby.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

(This in response to a complaint about bookkeeping in 3e + 4e) I like it in principle. More numbers means more depth to the world. Numbers up = good, numbers down = bad. In practice, I often forget to write down my loot, much less how much farming my homestead got done this season

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So let's just say when King Elessar decides to pronounce the Shire an autonomous region under his protection rather than, like, trying to invade it, your thought is, "oh thank Eru..."

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🍁Mel🇨🇦 @melhathnofury.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Here’s instructions on building your own Corsi-Rosenthal box.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

oh so NOW you support gender confirmation treatment

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

NEW: A special TTRPG charity bundle to help designer Rae Nedjadi offset their medical expenses after serious illness and a month-long hospital stay. Includes Apocalypse Keys plus a terrific selection of other games. Get over $285 in games for just 25 bucks! 👇 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

On the left, an illustration of Rae Nedjadi with short curly black hair and horn-rim glasses, wearing a purple and pink striped robe. Next to that, the covers of the games in the Rae Nedjadi Recovery Bundle: Our Haunt, Apocalypse Keys, Doomsday Delights, Brindlewood Bay, Defy the Gods, Once More Into the Void, Blue Rose, Raccoon Sky Pirates, Glow, The Love Balloon, The Wildsea: Ships Gardens, Paragons, Gingerbread Kaiju, The Hunger in the Void, Space Post, Seers & Roebuck, For Coin & Blood, Dynasties & Demagogues, Party Beach Creature Feature, Heroic Maps - Villages (Summer), Quantum Entanglement, and Infestation at Devil's Glade.

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The Pope has decided that instead of competing against each other, Portugal will play Brazil while Spain plays Mexico.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You

A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 17/06/2026

RFK jr is a eugenist. That's why he says what he says and does what he does.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month to my magnificent LGBTQ friends and my magnificent LGBTQ enemies 💜

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I lost my job, I can't sleep due to the floodlights from the data center next door, and my tax dollars are being given to men who ransacked the Capitol on January 6th. But at least I can watch Vanilla Ice perform on the National Mall.

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Giraud, basically @giraud.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A spotify playlist of various artists where all songs are either “running up that hill” or “rolling down the hill”

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 14/05/2026

Spotted on Tumblr…

Screenshotted tweet:”If people are fighting for an orb you are reading fantasy. If people are fighting fir a cube you are reading sci-fi. If it gas more sides than that. I dont know. I dont know man.”

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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 10/05/2026

how it feels to learn anything at all about anyone or anything in 2026:

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/05/2026

VANISHING CULTURE is out now! From #InternetArchive, this book looks at what is disappearing online. It asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to vanish 🕳️ 📖 Download: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... #DigitalMemory #Books

Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

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profejohncosby.bsky.social @profejohncosby.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I went with a student group to a Ford plant tour some years ago. The tour included a ra-rah presentation about the history and future of the company that included an embedded commercial for the still-in-dev EV F-150. After that I was considering buying my first truck. Ah, well, what might have been.

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Sweet Science, Savage Art @sweetscisavart.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

NEW ZINE!!! How to Build Martial Arts and Community Defense Training Programs. Learn how to keep your community safe by teaching functional martial arts and fitness in a healthy and liberatory manner. Let's get to work! archive.org/details/how-...

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How To Build Martial Arts And Community Defense Training Programs - Imposed : Sweet Science, Savage Art : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This zine is a comprehensive and step-by-step guide for instructors and organizers on how to build a training program from the ground up. Tailored for the...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23/04/2026

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

hate is often just frustrated love, I’m in that category to, I am a committed AI hater but I actually LOVE machine learning as an overall branch of computer science I just hate that the stupidest people alive popularized the worst possible applications of it and sucked funding from everything else

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Today in social justice toolkit: A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation. You've given them only bad options. I give some examples & then we talk about how to design them. This one's pretty important. Read and share, please?

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Force the Oppressor to make a Lose/Lose Choice

Social Change Toolkit: Dilemma Actions

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profejohncosby.bsky.social @profejohncosby.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Grand Rapids labor history, or, how the Dutch Reform Church once again made everything worse with surprisingly outsized effects

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 07/04/2026

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation. We have to live into the world we want to create.

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Trump uses the phrase "like no one has ever seen before" like no one has ever seen before

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Kip Conlon @kipconlon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

For fuck's sake. Yes, Israel—the political state—sucks. No, Israel is not "Jews". No, antisemitism is not justified in the face of Israel's aggression. No, antisemitism does not build justice for Palestinians.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 23/03/2026

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

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profejohncosby.bsky.social @profejohncosby.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

“Spend your time trying to understand the hated not the haters”

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Without truth there can be no healing. Sí, se puede. Sin verdad no puede haber sanación. Sí, se puede.

A sepia toned photo of farm workers marching with lots of flags in the background and these words in the foreground:

These recent days have been indescribably painful for our union, our members and for the huge community who continues to support farm workers in their fight for justice. We have nothing but solidarity and support for all of the survivors who have courageously come forward to share their stories.

Without truth there can be no healing. Sí, se puede.

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profejohncosby.bsky.social @profejohncosby.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Hoobastank’s “The Reason,” all of Imagine Dragons except the theme from ”League of Legends,” or Schubert’s Ave Maria

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 18/03/2026

No, look, it'll be fine. It'll star an all-femme Pulp belting out bangers for the working class.

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profejohncosby.bsky.social @profejohncosby.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I’ve spent my entire professional career teaching students that “I know you are, but what am I?” Is both inane and tautological. But if ever there were a time for it…

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I realize this sounds very fragile if you aren't acquainted with how eugenics functions narratively, but especially under fascism there is a very strong push to say that physical embodiment is the expression of inward character.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026

The thing that makes AI signify "go fuck yourself" isn't some intrinsic factor of large language models or transformers. It's the capitalist mode of automation, increasing quantity at the expense of quality. 71/

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