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noah @sheapforwheet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Someone came to my door the other day with a flyer for a candidate here in district 3 and their list of endorsements included Keith Wilson, mingus mapps, and Dan Ryan. I told him those are three people I wouldn't trust to water my houseplants.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
meme image of the century just dropped
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Ranger Dave @rangerdave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you're in Portland OR and want to play TTRPGs and are cool and like a narrative and worldbuilding driven game (or series of games) Please shoot me One (1) PM/DM and I will add you to my contact list for game planning.
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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RIP to an absolute fucking icon, my god
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Adam @trabsolutely.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
But it’s just a real timesaver to scream that the new system is “rigged” when what you really mean you have declined to understand it.
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James Asmus @jamesasmus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh my god he admit it www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
Microsoft director privately admits AI was "largest theft of labor in human history"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Trump: "I could've banned fishing. The power of this office is crazy. I could've banned fishing. I think I'm gonna do that."
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Ranger Dave @rangerdave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Why wasn't Dokapon Kingdom a bigger thing? Considering it was functionally "DnD Mario Party" you'd think the millenial/elder gen Z grouping would absolutely be obsessed, but I feel i only know about 5 people who've even ever heard of it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026
i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!
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Rockom Sockom NoBots @rockom.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Oregonian Pitchbot: We asked people who have strong opinions on transit they never use to describe the dangers they imagine.
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Ranger Dave @rangerdave.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
RCCC had the PPB showing off multiple drones and robots and all I could think was "how many millions do each of these toys cost?" Because they are just toys, for civilian surveillance, sometimes violence, but shiny toys that don't really improve real casework/investigations
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thread: The enormous unprecedented SCALE of the American AI investment boom is "crowding out" investment going into any other sector of the economy. At this point in mid 2026, it is literally sucking away all factors of production -capital, land, labour, knowledge, ecology. @katemac.bsky.social
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Genderless Robotic Rodent 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
OPEN THE SCHOOLS
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Top 1% Commenter

How does the foie gras ban impact the number of beds at the state hospital?

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The ridiculous amount of time and energy spent on foie gras could have, and should have, gone to discussing the lack of beds, resources, social workers, psychiatric providers, and outpatient day programs for the mentally ill population of Multnomah county. We have the highest rate IN THE NATION.
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Ranger Dave @rangerdave.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Illustrators, how do you go about designing increasing "battle damage" to character designs? I'm trying to really fuck up a guy who's progressively getting absolutely battered as this DnD campaign goes on
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marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
see you space cowboy tim curry
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is the bike of one of the cyclists who was "bumped" by the pick-up truck driver. This sort of language is one way that media outlets downplay traffic violence.
A shattered bicycle that is broken in half lying in the grass
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
christine drazan’s transportation platform:
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Kessu @kessuburd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I drew my DnD character! He's a very anxious druid named Galahad. Terrible things are gonna happen to him 💖
A colored bust sketch of a worried-looking brown-skinned man with flowy medium-length dark hair, a beard, and a mustache (meant to be reminiscent of Dev Patel in "The Green Knight"). Beside him is a stylized cross fox in a sort of jumoing/falling pose.
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KinoFabino 🇵🇸 @kinofabino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Reposting because of the sony news
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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We are sick and tired of our healthcare system putting profits before people. We need to create a future where every single person can get the care they need regardless of their ability to pay. We need Medicare for All. My op-ed with @publiccitizen.bsky.social: truthout.org/articles/our...
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Ilhan Omar: Our Health Care System Is Broken Beyond Repair. We Need Medicare for All.
Repealing Medicare cuts and restoring ACA subsidies are the first step. But ultimately, we need universal health care.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Cal Newport -- @author-calnewport.bsky.social -- is so right. Gift link. Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
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Opinion | Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit

December 9, 2025

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.

During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.

Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.

Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …It is in fact highly ironic to blame TikTok for the dissemination of content laying bare the realities of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Like many other social media conglomerates, TikTok has been accused of systematic censorship of pro-Palestinian content. In July of this year, TikTok appointed an ex-IDF instructor as its new manager of hate speech. This person can hardly be accused of pro-Palestinian views given her background and stated opinions. It appears that what Secretary Clinton really means to say is that TikTok is not being effective enough at censoring the truth.

What truly seems to unsettle Secretary Clinton is not “misinformation,” but rather the fact that younger generations are no longer consuming a single, state-controlled narrative. They are accessing unfiltered images and testimonies that challenge decades of political messaging. This helps explain why TikTok has become a target, not because it is misleading students, but precisely because the content uploaded by its users allow them to see beyond official propaganda.

When former Secretary Clinton calls this “a serious problem for democracy,” it sounds less like a defense of democratic values and more like concern for the weakening of a long-standing political and ideological agenda, one that, it must be stated, is highly undemocratic.

Secretary Clinton did get one thing right, although quite inadvertently: When you do not have the truth on your side, all you left with is indeed optics and “the narrative.” But she is wrong to think that any amount of PR – even really great and expensive PR – is going to hide this genocide. Israel would be better served by advice to end the genocide, engage in a transformational process that brings the perpetrators to justice, and build a future with Palestinians. That is the only way to change its image.

America’s young people are no longer fooled by genocide denial – whether it is being presented by Israel, the United States, Sudan, Myanmar, Russia, or Secre…
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay
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Genderless Robotic Rodent 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"no fair! You organized! That's cheating!"
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
What do you mean the rules of society don't apply because it's a dog!? www.curbed.com/article/dogs...
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
the 'electability' question is increasingly clear www.sosavstate.com/p/gavin-news...
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
ill never understand this need from both left and right for there to be some master manipulator behind everything. sometimes politicians are just really shitty and they arent being paid off or blackmailed to do so. they just suck.
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This needs to be stopped, and likely needs to have people camped out like during No DaPL protests. These corporations are going to eliminate all the old-growth trees you claim to love. Stop them. You squat on our land. Protect it. ourpubliclandsandwaters.substack.com/p/blm-plans-...
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BLM Plans to Clearcut Almost 2 Million Acres of Western Oregon Old-Growth Forests
This would brings us back to the 1960s, when 3 square miles of rain forest were felled every week
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate
Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”
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Ranger Dave @rangerdave.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Actually Fuck King County Bus System though
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/02/2026
This is straight up manufacturing consent now
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
As usual, I'm mentally running from the big scary things by focusing on getting extremely petty and angry about smaller things
Distracted boyfriend meme. A man labelled Facebook birders turns away from "real birds" to instead admire "using habitat-wrecking AI to make a birding profile pic"
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If you can’t run against the fucking Gestapo, then get out of the way for those who can.
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Ranger Dave @rangerdave.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I dunno man, one of the more prominent, nominally left of center economics accounts has been doing more posting about how great it is that Maduro has been deposed than I have Ever seen him post about other bad leaders, despite having no connection to Venezuela. Makes ya think
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Ranger Dave @rangerdave.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Hello, we see you're interested in local politics in Portland, would you be interested in this podcast consisting of the two most dull white men you've ever seen calmly shit talking Oregon while saying some of the most confidently wrong things you've ever heard and telling each other "Exaaaactly"
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🌞🌻🌙 @honeyp0t.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New research highlights from 2025! This thread covers some of our latest work on capitalism, imperialism, post-growth and ecosocialist futures. It's all open access, and free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Super important that every discord user takes this survey. Let them know.
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
And if you want a Mamdani, you need to volunteer with a ground campaign. You need to talk to people irl about the policies your candidate is fronting and why they're a good thing. It's not just charisma, it's support. Support against bad actors and support to rally wider political momentum.
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WallE The Were-Hog ➡️ PaxU @walle132.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I think more people in the ttrpg and AP space could benefit from going back to their roots of text based and post by post RPs
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Break @breakfield01.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 23/12/2025
Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus Charlie Kirk died to gun violence
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